Friday 29th of March 2024
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Who is responsible for controlling market?
  Date : 29-03-2024

MM Rahmatullah: Not only onions, but also many other essential items, including consumer food, are beyond the reach of the middle class. According to critics, the government is beneficial to these problems. Because the high rate of daily demand imprints all other factors. Jahangirnagar University Crisis, Cleansing Drive, Cricket have all returned to the back burner with the onion intensity. What should we do if prices are always high at the daily needed? Meanwhile, though the people here are so passionate about politics, it is on the back foot at the moment. The smaller political parties are said to be shrinking further, though the issue is hardly creating a stir. However, the matter does deserve due contemplation. 70 sacks of rotten onion dumped under a bridge in comilla on Tuesday. On the other hand, Islam banned the reserves for rising price.

People create all sorts of organizations. They create cultural, literary, sports and social welfare groups. Political parties are different from the rest. They deal with the state. They aim to take over state power, either solely or in understanding with others.

No matter how small a party may be, its leader has his eye on the power clique. He may not be able to become an insider, but is still eager to remain at the periphery at least. That is why the small parties are drawn into alliance with bigger parties. Party coalitions have been at the forefront of politics for quite a few years in this country.

There is discussion of what value addition the small parties make when forming alliances with the big ones. They enter the alliance if it benefits them. The leaders of these parties have skirmishes among themselves.

Many believe that rather than starving alone, it’s better to get a place in a rich man’s house. Then again, some have a strong sense of dignity. They’d rather die than lose respect. That is what the waxing and waning of the political alliances in all about in this country. Some small ones join the bigger parties in alliance simply for the sake of survival, for the fringe benefits.

Parties are not immovable inert objects. They deal with people and there is always some tension or the other. If not accommodated in one alliance, certain groups simply rush to the other. It’s all about finding a niche. Then there are differences and conflict among the smaller parties, virtual civil wars.

Before there were ideological differences, but now it’s all about what can be gained out of the deals. There is so much effort, so many pleas to enter the building designed by Louis Kahn. Once they enter that building, they want to enter again and again. Those who have not entered as yet, go to any lengths to gain entry.

There has been a flurry of activity among the smaller parties in recent times, but onions have overpowered the issue. Flames have shot up in ASM Abdur Rab’s JSD. Nagorik Oikya is shaky. The 20-party alliance is bracing itself for a storm, with LDP making a lot of noise. The bigger parties are hardly at peace either. Awami League is facing tumultuous times with its various wings and front organizations. Outside Dhaka, the party is rife with inner conflict, often violent.

Govt party Awami League’s central council is to be held in December and the tenure of many of the district committees has expired. They are unable to hold their councils. Now there is consternation and concern all around as to who will gain a foothold in the central committee and who will be discarded. BNP appears to be in its autumn, with its leaves falling to the ground. Several leaders are breaking away from the party. They are losing patience, can no longer persevere in the uncertainty.

Somebody asked, how is the state running? It is running, somehow. There are lofty declarations of moving out from the least developed nation bracket to the developing nation level. It’s all about self-sustained growth. It is not politics, but economy that is in the driver’s seat. That’s why the state moves forward automatically. We are entering an era where the state will control politics. Politics will no longer be about fulfilling anyone’s aspirations. Whether we like it or not, isn’t that how things are now? Though its sorrowful for everybody.



  
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