Here is a reason for which CTG can justify banning Jamat-e-Islami
The corrupt politics of the two main parties and the hollowness in the personalities of the leaders (leftists or center) - these were the lifeline and these still are the life-blood for the politics of Jamat. Moreover, our two national fools - Dr. K. and Dr. B. brought in the two ladies from their 'heshel' to lead their respective parties, in the name of unity and eventually to destroy what was still left of politics in Bangladesh. Although, the two ladies are paying the prices, punishing the people who surrounded them is more needed. The cunning Go.A. and his party has so far maximized their political gain from this political hodgepodge because of these big mistakes perpetrated by our national leaders, their corrupt character or for the lack of strength in their statesman approach to leadership.Its time to think about possible correction.
So what? Somebody has taken advantage of the situation prevalent in the environment. At least, Go.A. and his party knew how to read the environment and make use of it, isn't it? Now that those fools and stupids are realizing that they have nothing to be proud of, they have achieved very little and many of them are lining up to prepare themselves in jails, they are doing their last thing - express their hate towards the party of Go.A. on the basis of something which they could not do or at the least, did not think doable. Now, they are demanding this out of CTG, with the hope (in their heart) to belittle this fledgling government - to create pressure on the CTG to get out of corruption fight prematurely or at least, to save their faces. What more harm can you do, dear politicians? Can't you just say "Dhoroni Dhidha Hou"!! and leave us, the people, alone?
Moreover, the basis or logic on which many of these stupids are writing their tune, is a faulty one. What do you do - if the younger generation leadership within that party - who probably have nothing wrong to do during 1971, if they sideline all the senior party leaders (say, who are above 45 years of age) from leadership? At least, they do not have to get their leaders ordered out of mother's womb! They practice democracy - whatever the word 'democracy' mean to them. But they don't order their leaders from a certain factory, they create their own leaders, isn't it? But lets not go there for today, lets focus on the topic.
We would imagine, there are many in line who can take over and will take over from those who allegedly did wrong during 1971. This particular allegation is confusing to the new generation people (at least to many of them who likes to think themselves as rational and open minded). Because nobody thought of filing cases against them, let alone arresting them during last 36 years. Well, except only Jahanara Imam's Gono-Adalot. Many of the nation participated in that practice and the verdict of that trial is declared already. That court is given its verdict and it is a close deal as far as that particular court is concerned. But that form of justice is supposed to inform the public - which it did successfully - to some extant.
Coming back to the issue - so, is there anything to do for the CTG about this issue? Or rather, could there be a ground or justification for the CTG to consider action against Jamat? Let us analyze. And it seems yes, only after, if the leadership in CTG thinks the govt. has been successful to cut the bloodline for the Jamatis or for that matter, the bloodline for any fundamentalist politics. Once that is done, action can be two-fold. State can take a legal position against these culprit - if there is a legal ground (ICC comes to mind), and also, the State can take a moral position on this matter - that has to be clearly positioned and succinctly articulated. Not like some of those Zillul / Menon / Inu type politicians would like it to be articulated.
How should CTG decide that it has done enough to cut the bloodline for the Jamati-type politics? Here is a benchmark. Out of the 222 listed, there should be at least 100 hard-core corrupt who would not accept the responsibility and wouldn't plea guilty. But there would be another hundred or so, who would like to plead guilty and want to cooperate with the government - in return of a peaceful private (not public) life with less punishment. Government should use those hundred or so to get others who were not listed or could not be listed. Those others will be implicated by these hundred pleading guilty. On the average if one corrupt gives enough information to get another 10 fishes.... that gives the government about 1000 new corrupts to work with. Again among those 1000 new, they will probably eventually find about 500 hardcore corrupts who should be sent behind bar for at least 15 years each or for life. Also, if the ACC takes its time to continue this kind of work in a iterative way - that should make sure that Bangladesh would come out of vicious cycle of corruption on the national scale - in a few years time. But is ACC to completely equipped yet for that kind of work? No, we do not think so. Government should take RAB - detach it from regular police force - and attach it with the ACC permanently. RAB should become the action arm of ACC - the size of RAB should be smaller in size but flexible in that the ACC Chairman can co-opt any number of members temporarily from various government agencies (NBR, BoI, Army, Police, Navy, BCS, etc) or private companies or NGOs as needed basis. It will be a true reflection of its name - RAP ACTION BATTALION.
Anyways, coming back to the topic - once that is done, govt should have a reasonable comfort that the bloodline of Jamat has been cut off. Now, dealing with the fundamentalists will be a one time job. If the aforementioned thing is not done first, the dealing with the fundamentalists will not be a one time job, rather targeting the Jamatis will enhance their popularity - since they might be seen as victimized and get popularity since the general people dis-like other corrupts even more. Moreover, you have to take into consideration that the population are poor and lacks proper eduction. But if we have blown off the corrupts from the major parties and from the bureaucracy, and also placed a mechanism that this cleansing up will continue to make sure that things will not reverse, rather things should improve over time. That would make sure that anti-Jamat action would not backfire.
So, let us assume every pre-condition has been achieved. Now, what the CTG can do?
Going back to our allegation of AL/BNP that they could not or did not go after Jamat - CTG should ask the same question themselves. If they could not go after Jamat, why? (A) Was it lack of competence or (B) Was it lack of political will? or (C) Was it because there is not a case, actually? or (D) Is it the other case - AL/BNP did not go after Jamat even though they could go after them?
Out of these four options, only if (C) is found to be true, CTG can avoid the duty of going after Jamat. We are not sure, what CTG can do in that case. But, if it was the case of either (A) or (B) or (D) - which our so called politicians should clarify - the CTG can not avoid the responsibility of doing something about Jamat. They should and we think, they would do something when the time is proper. But that process should start with a dialogue with all the traditional party leaders articulating their reason for not doing anything so far. That should be made public. Once a consensus is reached about the reason - articulated by the political leaders, the eradication of fundamentalist politics from Bangladesh would be a matter of time. And the CTG can at least initiate the task, if not complete it, given the time crunch that it has. Or may be, it can ask for more time to complete this additional job, after completing the jobs at hand.
If you thought some of the ideas are worth of your reading time, please forward it to others. If you have an ear to the members of CTG, leaders of the political parties and activists, members of the civil soceity and legal organizations, please forward it to them. If you have an ear to the journalists and news editors of the electronic media, discuss it with them. Hope they would look at the suggestions and give due diligence.
Thanks for your time,
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Note: This is a freelance column, published mainly in different internet based forums. This column is open for contribution by the members of new generation, sometimes referred to as Gen 71. If you identify yourself as someone from that age-group and want to contribute to this column, please feel free to contact. Thanks to the group moderator for publishing the article.
We have not seen the Liberation War, but we know if we can free the country from corruption first, we will eventually get to other dreams soon. Because of corruption, we could not even get into information highway for years, let alone other dreams!
This is the kind of article for which we started this column. Because of ongoing mess, a gift from our older generation, we often get diverted. Now that it seems some sanity is returning in Bangladesh, we would try to go back to our original plan.
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