TOWARDS METAMORPHOSIS instead drive them to find feasible solutions-preach and propagate
those to form public opinions and place them before the ruling party
The 1940’s were the time of turmoil, the times of Titans, the times
when principles determined politics, ideals fashioned ambitions and the
passion for freedom and the spirit of sacrifice designed careers. Those
were the days of unostentatious and silent services to people. These
among other thoughts come stampeding, all clamoring for attention,
each causing an emotional tug. People now trace the roots of problems
and the sources of divisions. While there are flashes of by gone glory
scattered all over, there are also polite but candid appraisals of skewed
priorities. Elitism and status quo, privilege and power remained entities
and a set of brown rulers replaced the whites. As disparities grew, so
did alienation. And the only response the new rulers could think of was
savage repression of popular mobilization. The liberal leaders are still
presuming the people to recollect their struggles, think of present
problems, and their potentials, enshrined to inspire them towards
continuing their fight for a better life, a life of dignity and self respect,
a life free of oppression and exploitation, injustice and penury.
By virtue of its having the majority people are being ruled by the most
ignorant and unenlightened people known as politicians. Liberals have
certainly very good intellectual and moral reasons for allowing peoples
sense of disgust to develop into pure hatred of the illegitimate political
system. It is precisely such a feeling and revulsion are being
experienced as one gets state of the situations in the country- people
with all their slums, the perpetual sight of children seeking alms to
support their younger brother and sisters or their parents broken
physically or mentally by the extreme poverty they have had to endure
and the pathetic look in the faces of millions. Any sensible person, in
this situation, knows that any political whimsical action will destroy
even what is left of the economy and social institutions, but the major
opposition party throws one after the other programs without caring for
people’s welfare. Here lies the necessity of active liberal sensitive
political and social leader, whose idealism and deep concern for the
people do not lead them to abandon their practical commonsense but
to resolve effectively the problems of extreme poverty and serious
deprivation. There is movement but no anarchy, agitation but no
mob action, mobilization but not destruction.
Neither religious rituals nor ideology can take human beings much
closer to a visionary state of perfection. Religious commandments of
Islam, the ideology of liberalism and Banglee nationalism if
visualized with adequate realism can take humanity forward to
peace, prosperity and progress. Anything more perfect is just ill
conceived plain romanticism, reflecting, in fact, a frailty of intellect,
which is the only attribute of oppressors and their oppressive social,
political and economic system. The irony is that these very people
are ruling the world and the vast majority of human beings are just
passive onlooker. It is high time a group of human beings to get up
from the slumber and stand erect. Life in death is much better than
death in life- so says the wise.
The grandeur of vision and its greatness of historical development of
humanity enabled the liberals to see further than others. Oriental
politicians of the past were not any of those numerous specialist
intellectuals, who know only about their particular little Domain, all
being darkness beyond. They were of universal mind and were true
to themselves and the human beings as a whole. They ventured into
the dangerous terrain of the chain of creation, sought meaning and
purpose of humanity and came out with high integrity and intensity,
which all great men possess. They moved to the darkness of the dark
places and yet come out spotless. They knew the western and the
Aryan invaders had no social roots in south Asian sub-continent and
that they could not have established themselves against the wishes
of the people who were prepared by the experience to resist them.
Politics to them were a method for understanding the people and the
society the process and then working to transform it.
Present day politicians themselves have no work ethic and none
inculcated in the workers and that results in the collapsing of the party.
The main problem is that the most important social class is politically
influential class and they are rich and reactionaries and parochial and
as such they stand in the way of progress and national unity. Society is
undergoing a process of intellectual and moral disintegration.
Managing diversities is unthinkable. Absence of a vision is the absence
of a political design to keep the country together and gain economic
prosperity and social progress. People require solutions to the problems
of their daily life and that is what the state is there for. A peoples state
is necessary to which mass people could relate and towards which they
can have a sense of belonging. It should have been concern of the
leaders to formulate a vision for national regeneration and discuss with
a group of intellectuals taken form all beliefs, opinion and inclinations,
on a common plat from for democracy, social reforms and economic
development compatible with the requirements of ecology and of
course for political purification. People are tired of present political
system and have a great desire to see the start of an intellectual
transformation to precede social and political transformation of a
fundamental nature. The intelligentsias are in natural and direct
contract with common people and the state of their thinking could
almost be taken as a rough barometer of the public mind at any given
moment. Considering the thoughts and feelings of the people there
appears a group of so called intellectuals who to live a life of affluence
collaborate with the whims of the ruling elites and also with the foreign
hegemonic forces and do their best to transform the national identity as
to that of foreign culture that encourages animalism to develop in
human beings. This great problem cannot be ignored or bypassed.
The vision has to be able to tackle two problems: (i) how to transform
the people of this region to liberal culture of peaceful co-existence of
the people of different culture and faith and (ii) how to reduce the
social strata. Mass people think it not at all difficult. Leaders and
intellectuals have to reverse one of the most progressive features of
present culture. Revival of old spirit of truth seeking and truth speaking
in social and religious life but that requires a man of very high moral
stature- i.e. he has to be a perfect human being. On the question of
resolution of conflicts and displacing social gaps, the general
impression is that there is too much of wishful thinking and slogan
mongering and too little of hard, realistic facing of facts. The change
demands a total break out from the existing intellectual framework
prevailing in the society and that is very much essential. Retaining
old framework in the thinking will push people back into the present
situation. Change means surrendering the two hundred years old
British tailored intellectual framework and culture civilization,
which in reality means to be human and civil. To be human and civil
one has to be religious, not in its ritual sense, but a broader and
universal conception of democracy, human rights irrespective of sex,
race, creed and religion. There is a tendency in the western-educated
people to blindly criticize religion and to ignore it. People rather get
to understand it better and more deeply so that people of all religions
could be aided to arrive at some kind of universal ground of unity
within religion itself. As it has been told earlier, there has to be an
intellectual revaluation before a social revaluation takes place in the
field of action. The real actors in the society should enlarge their
understanding by acquiring a perspective thorough knowledge,
grasp the process of history-not just facts of history, but how
empires have collapsed, how religions advanced and how massive
change in the human society have taken place. They have to reflect
on major national issues, work an basic issues, on the clarification of
basic concept, always seek to reach at the root of problems, speak on
the implications of the collapse of best ideals for peoples quest,
reflect on what the real human aspirations should be and what is real
development and how to make those development sustainable, how
to keep environment and ecology free from pollution; make a deep
study of human civilizations and their evolution and destruction and
its perennial concerns and current problems. Believing individuals
and not building institution will not bring any good, but a very
serious moral decline will follow. The final, shrunken, hapless
figures of the oppressed and exploited people may evoke deep
tender feelings, but without powerful personality and masterful
intellect these people could not be salvaged.

To combined theory and practice in political, economic and social
affairs with a purposeful coherence and an extraordinary competence
and the analysis of the process of nation making is the main concern of
present day activities. It seems that nobody is particularly conscious in
locating the imperative for the rise of nation state and the essentials of
the materials and non-material ingredients of Bangladeshi nationalism.
There is no effect to a conspicuous analytical perception of events,
personalities, concepts, processes and distinctive characteristics of
societies. Present day real actors must realize the innumerable
subtleties and nuances that was devised for murderous exploitation of
the millions by a few. The nationhood have a very direct relationship
with exploitation and oppression as well as repression which, in turn
have significant impact on ideas and values as well as on social and
political systems like democracy, land use, industrialization, social
space, self sufficiency as conceived by leaders of the struggle. But it is
a wonder, how the planning process in Bangladesh’s development
works; have over the years reduced to certain routine rituals. The
cumulative impact of particularisms and tensions and the decline of the
moral fiber of the policy had prompted selfishness, dishonesty,
personal advancement, political and social manipulation and corruption
in public life on an extensive scale causing perceptive erosion of
ideology and idealism. Poverty becomes the specific differentiator of
development and its collective symbol. Stagnation of developments,
absence of virile public debates on national issues, the dehumanizing
concentration of wealth and the growth of apparently irresistible
arrogance of the real-actors are some of the characteristics of
Bangladeshi nationalism. Nowhere is seen any aspect of imaginative
perception, that offered growth, sensible ties at any stage and a
qualitative enrichment of conscious. Heredity alone does not shape
one’s consciousness in a deterministic way, self-image has its role in
formulating values. Commitment to self respect is the quality of head
and heart which prevents a person from bending and bowing and self
respect is interlinked with one’s dedication to work as a sacred
obligation instead of instinct for survival and unending inclination for
power and wealth. The elementary lessons on social realities, poverty
and its ruthlessness, the essentials of human fraternity can only be
learnt if there is a world of curiosities, of asking questions and an
effort of understanding nature with a single minded purpose and
devotion with the yearning to remain youthfully vigilant. The
relevant social and political changes, resistance erupting all over
with firm nexus with national consciousness, the emergence of
novel political strategy and peaceful method of protest transforms
people’s movements into mass upsurge. The extension of the base of
the movement is underlined by the rise of professional people along
with the peasants and workers as a conspicuous social force. The tire
of nationalism gradually but surely engulfs the peoples thought
process. The complexity of living is meaningful only in terms of a
moral obligation towards responsibilities, a modicum of detachment
and sincere involvement with life itself. Along with it is needed a
relational comprehension of the processes of change in life and
history and the zeal and devotion of a reformer with enormous range
of interest and formidable depth of analysis.
The story of men and events become meaningful only in the context
of social progress operating in the framework of certain historical,
ethnic and geographical specificities. It involves charges. Since the
process of thinking and reasoning are essential for human
development millions of people live and die in a state of intellectual
inertia. Creative minority suffered through the ages under the
tyranny of authorities punishing, what they termed, dangerous
thoughts; proscribing any move that they think as deviation and
enforcing conformity to their ideas. But the final show down could
not be stopped or contained. The path of human progress is littered
with the bodies of the freedom fighters and of the fallen god’s
towards its natural end, i.e. realization of humanity, based on
rationality, justice, equality, liberty and progress. Human nature
matures in the process of complex interaction between
consciousness, conscience, society and nature. The ascent of human
beings from primitive copying of animalism to the wonderful
creativity most forcefully affirms the primacy of love over hatred,
justice over injustices, liberty over tyranny and above all intellectual
and physical action over surrendering to uncertainty or fate. The
interaction between the major explosions of human knowledge and
consciousness intensified the tensions between processes of continuity
and change. The most significant expressions of the interaction is the
assertion of certain primary identities. The management of human
consciousness was the principal task of social engineering and its
purpose was to steer the process of change in such a way as to invest
the imperative of the post, present and future with an orderly and
creative development. In terms of practical experience of life, it meant
the attainment of a satisfactory equilibrium between security social
stability and production of wealth and when the equilibrium was
disturbed, it denoted the decline of the society, the nation and the age.
In history time and again certain mindsets become so opaque and
oblivious of the imperatives of change that they release, consciously or
unconsciously, forces that lead to convulsions and immoderate social
and political transformations. Thus if continuity is underwritten in
social politics at the expense of the demands of change, tension is
inevitable and when change is given primacy in defiance of continuity,
tensions become impending. Statesmanship consists in managing the
tension in order to contain explosive flashpoints and at the sane time
continue with social progress towards humanity. All societies
everywhere in the world have been presented by historical
developments and opportunities to resolve this tension. But the task is
carried out according to the specificities of historical and social
realities. Insensitiveness to human travails is the curse of heartless
consumerism and statesmen economists and intellectuals are urged to
ponder over the eerie prospect of the nation plunging into violence and
anarchy unless the passions encapsulated in the words such as
humanity, trusteeship, sacrifice and companionship is internalized as
inseparable parts of national inheritance.
Tragedies in human history have been the direct result of mindsets,
dogmatic belief and disinclination to analysis and face harsh realities.
Describing a rational evolution of a nation in a country of glorious
diversities one must not seek to overwhelm these diversities by rigid
political and cultural uniformity. In the structuring of modern
Bangladesh what is required is not passive acceptance of social and
cultural diversities of national life but to respect them as essential
parts of a richly embroidered piece of textile offering an enormous
field of human creativity. Vigilance is the essence of human
development; otherwise there would be that threat of stagnation.
Status quo is the clear signal of stagnation especially when the scope
for human aspirations and knowledge are fundamental for rational
social change. The democratic process is the only rational path of
progress and it must create conditions for introspection in the field
of health, education, culture, and economic and social
developments. And in the process the concepts of justice, quality,
liberty and fraternity cannot be overlooked. Bangladesh with all its
poverty, ill health, illiteracy cannot afford to muddle through the
development process. Illiberal ideal based on irrational archaic
realities should not hinder the efforts of nation building which in a
historical sense, an undoing process. The democratic process of
Bangladesh must be sustained by two eternal institutions of
‘political morality’ and ‘the satisfaction of being heard’. The
democratic society can never be a fundamentalist society it must
eschew irrational emotions as the ephemeral cementing agency of
various groups faiths and cultures unless those attend against natural
law and human nature. It cannot be based an physical force to be
overthrown by a superior force. It cannot be sustained by the
arbitrary imposition of the injunctions of majority on the minorities
having different thoughts for the realization of the ideal of humanity
as the end of all natural laws. Polity and society can only be
sustained by continued applications of pluralistic social, cultural and
private requirements. Renaissance, Enlightenment and Juristic
Humanitarian Universalism can only be accelerated by the ‘law
governing state’ and ‘the law-abiding citizen’. Respecting each
human identity i.e., individualism and yet transcending it i.e.
Universalism is the sum total concept of pluralism. Fundamentalism
is imposition of one’s view upon the other. It is invasion of others’
space. When modern ‘Liberals’ distorts the privilege of freedom of
speech and extends into slander, they too become fundamentalists.
When they convert right to expression into right to abuse they too
are fundamentalists. When lie and malice are used to caricature
prophets and religion of honored and thousands millions of people,
then there too is a form of fundamentalism. The malevolence of abuse
is violence against both civilization and humanity.
Mindset and social structures do not change fast enough to internalize
the knowledge for creating a good society. There is very little anxiety
in the contemporary world to feed the hunger of the heart and famine
of the brain; that a meaningful society was not feasible by ravaging the
earth and destroying the bio-sphere; that mankind has entered upon a
new concept of time and space which is balanced between variability
and uncertainity, that fundamentalism of rituals gains adherence only in
the measure that reason retreats in unscrupulous politics. The
decolonization and the fall of socialism meant the end of an artificial
world order but it is not yet replaced by another more natural order that
had been experienced in the past in Asian subcontinent; that
multiculturalism, pluralism and new ethos of co-existence together
constitute the condition for the climate of equality and a common
quest, that is the spirit of a multicultural and multipolar world; that the
constant interactions between the economic elements causing change
and the various elements of the superstructure of human society amid
all the host of accidents cannot be underestimated, that societies
change because human beings change, that often economic change are
not matched by corresponding changes in social process, that as a
result, tensions, inefficiencies and hesitations are but natural by
products of human endeavors.
All the basic values are being eroded. There is an insidious attempt to
control thought, the history text books are being suppressed and re-
written; intolerance is being spread, science and scientists with reason
and scientific temper are all in retreat; every kind of obscurantism and
obscene is being encouraged; mythological playmates, revival is
gaining ground misusing the conflict betweens righteousness and evil
and the ultimate victory of truth and love. In the name of culture,
which the self appointed protagonist never succeeded in defining, leave
aside the urge for propagating, are only drilling and dragooning of
young minds. The malice which afflicts our daily life has its root in
collective national failure to face the challenges of transformation.
Truth has to be realized through a life long creative involvement and
intellectual restlessness and devotion to scientific analysis of human
beings, society, nation and institutions and examine the explosions
in human consciousness and relativity of human achievements with
surgical ruthlessness. Concentrating on the main problems
confronting the contemporary state system calls for a definitive and
determined effort to clean up the grossly distorted agrarian relations
in the country without which self reliant and independent capitalism
would not grow and without which the conditions for self
sufficiency would remain an idle dream. One cannot overlook that
the imperatives of the idea of social equality should be closely
associated with a concerted frontal assault on the antiquated social
structure without which one cannot release the social energy
quartered and contained within the cellular structure of our social
spacing system.
Bangladesh could no longer be left with the soft options of its
economic, social, cultural, industrial, agricultural and political
leaders. Is a fast moving world with cybernetics and space science
and with nuclear energy and information technology, intellectuals
scientists, technocrats and bureaucrats has to be called upon to face
the hard realities confronting the independent survival of a great
Bangali civilization and Bangladeshi nation. Those nation-building
leaders must be bold enough to opt for effective steps based on
rationality, conviction, a total perspective and an integrated concept
of progress transcending petty attractions of temporary gains.
Fragmented perceptions would release contracted vision,
contradictory politics and wrapped versions. With the pattern of
property relations unchanged, the poor would become poorer, with
limited growth and purchasing power and modernization confined to
a small section of population. The entire pattern of the country is
fast moving away from independent growth and self-reliance. In
such a situation, stagnation, debasement of morals and astronomical
growth of corruption is inevitable. The dominant political culture
has failed to grasp the development processes of the past that generated
a logic of its own that could only be comprehended by humanity,
morality, love, care and justice and certainly integrity. Now is a call for
the renewal of national pledge for salvation by upholding the time
tested national values that people have known to have existed in pre
British occupation.
The conference room where political discussion and deliberations take
place has to be an overflowing literary circle where all the real actors-
politicians, diplomats, administrators, journalists, advocates,
littérateurs, academics, social activists, artists, university students,
industrialists and leading men and women from other professions steep
in a sense of participation that help everybody grasp the essentials,
distinguish them from non-essentials, analysis and place them in the
context of development. There has to be a conviction that no cause can
triumph unless there are faithful agents to carry it through. After all,
the future will grow out of the historically evolving present day reality
and not by imposing upon the reality a design made out of a dream
world of desires, fantasis and false invocations. It is a life long quest to
fashion a viable comprehensive view of the interrelationship between
politics, economics, social structures, scientific outlook, cultural
patterns and value system. Without such an endeavour it is certain that
there will be no future of which a nation can be proud of. Clay may
have a tendency to be moulded, but it requires a potter’s hand to give it
shape and from. To quote from C.P. Snow. “Each of us is solitary, born
and die alone, all right, that is fate against which we cannot struggle-
but there is plenty in our condition which is not our fate, against which
we are less than human unless we do struggle. Most of our fellow
human beings are underfed, and die before their time. In the crudest
term that is social condition. There is a moral trap, which comes
through the insight into man’s loneliness, it tempts one to sit back
complacent in ones unique tragedy and let others go without meals. If
we are not members of one another, if we have no sympathy at this
elementary level then we have no human concern at all and any
pretence of a higher kind of sympathy is a mockery.” Natural sciences,
stages of human history, various social formations, the distribution of
surplus, the obligation of scientists and intelligentsia to the society,
the question of war and peace of global negotiations or to transfer of
technology and capital, uses of space science and technology, social
planning, ecology habitat and public health and education, the
prospect of New National Economic order and the nature of fascism
today, the process of decolonization, the showing of and exercise
military might and intimidation by super powers on the weaker
nations and killing of their innocent men, women and children by
aerial bombing or by blockading their supply routes and starving to
death hundreds and thousands of men, women and children’s and
using military might to occupy their national recourses, evil means
of organized global tyranny, the degeneration of vision of humanity,
political, economic and cultural aggression in the name of
globalization, shunning off the vision of globalism should be
discussed threadbare. There are ideas as a solvent of establishment,
idea to debunk, idea to corrode faith in irrational perceptions and
traditions, ideas that sought to evolve a rational line of action, ideas
to see through the emotional delusions about colonial revolutions,
ideas to comprehend the laws of motion of unstable and mobile
societies and ideas of human society capable of subordinating
selfishness, greed and predatory instincts to the urgent need of
enlarging altruism as the dominant ethos of human life. Voice should
be raised that is clear and resonant, perception acute and intellect
sharp and inquisitive. There should be an extra ordinary mélange of
experience, erudition and attitudes in a man of enlightenment,
humanist and rational, whose words would be provocative but
humane.
The long story of humanity can be considered from many points of
view. It is a story of the advance and growth of human beings and
the spirit of human beings, a story full of agony and tragedy.
It is a story of the masses of men and women in ferment and in
continuous movement. In course of movement, people shed off their
fear and indecision, learnt of unity, equality and brotherhood, and of
raising those who had been suppressed, and of the dignity of labour
and of the supremacy of things of the spirit and of truth in relation to
all their activities. In a democratic society adaptation to environment is
inevitable. But as the adaptation process gains pace care should be
taken as not to imperial basic ideals and objectives. Sometimes, it
becomes necessary to compromise yet success lies in the ability of the
leaders to mould and move the enormous mass of human beings
according to the necessities of the movement. In regard to the basic
points one has to be inflexible and firm as a rock and inspire the people
to rise above themselves. The world today is torn with hatred and
violence and fear and passion and the shadow of being wiped out of the
earth hangs heavily on everyone. Compelled by circumstances people
are apt to sink back even to a lower level than previously. People of
Bangladesh leave witnessed all these with extreme horror. After long
three decades, progress in terms of standards set by the Titans is not in
sight. Corruption reigns at all levels, especially among those who lead
the people. Criminalization of polity has lately acquired such
frightening proportions that it does not evoke the kind of revulsion it
used to sometimes back. The sprit of tolerance has been by and large
discarded by the nation or so it seems-exemplified as it is by the recent
spate of violence against opposition. As there is a slack in efforts of
people oriented intellectuals and patriotic civil society, the lackeys of
foreign hegemonic forces is leaving no stone unturned to depict
Bangladesh to the world community as a land of barbarians, which
they themselves are. The rulers also are looking in wrong direction
creating huge gaps to let fortune slip away. Social hatred is a reflection
of backwardness. Huge gaps in the spacing of social status reinforced
these concealed gaps that provides a measure of failure to advance the
cause of breading the vision. An intimate grasp of Bangladesh’s socio-
economic condition and the frontline advances in social thinking and
contemporary global developments, commonsense urges for a fast
social reconstruction. A population of one hundred and thirty million is
a great strength if they can only stand united and boldly face problems.
As a as the politicians are concerned, it would be well to note that most
of them has not come unto peoples expectations. The out took
mutuality of the bureaucrats in most cases do not depict patriotic
Bangladeshi or benevolent character. A national policy cannot be
executed until the permanent services become national in outlook
and mentality.
Regards for human development need to examine two contradictions
world views, the first view hold that social justice can only be
ensured through redistribution. But there is no guarantee that,
though this redistribution improves the lot of the worse off, will
encourage the people who are being provided with means will take
active part in economic development activities and also generate in
him to raise the standard of his living. The micro-credit of the non-
government organization to the amount of billions of local currency
poured to the have nots resulted in poverty inflation, even causing
the clients to sell their belonging to repay the credit they have
borrowed with a view to make them self sufficient. Though these
foreign funded organizations are unscrupulous business developers
and are prone to flay the poor people and are working as per
movements of the finger of their foreign donors to change the
political and cultural heritage and tradition towards all the evil
practices and killing their natural instant to oppose exploitation, yet
the poor people themselves are not less accountable as they give on
too soon to the trap laid by these unscrupulous money hunter and the
political backing that they buy and care not to do what to do i.e.
work to change the political pattern as they crave for the immediate
benefit. Thus only redistribution cannot ensure social justice unless
the motivation for greater benefit by lesser sacrifice can be aroused
in the heart of the people.
The other view is that economic growth is the remedy of national
ailments and that economic growth can only be achieved through
private sector. Economic growth to be beneficial and to be
developmental need a lot more things to take care of such as
political culture, social spacing, moral outlook etc. Benefits to
society if not considered important or of priority people will rarely
have the opportunities to take advantage of increasing economic
activity causing the worse off to actually regress. Politic is about
people. It is not abstractions like equality or growth. It is about
empowering people to unveil their potential supported by government
measures to provide all possible means to use peoples potential for
ensuring a better life for the people. Private sector economic growth is
not desirable when it ensures growth of a few who own the means. The
role that private sector plays in national development needs to be
assessed and be given recognition, but care should be taken those
government policies and management of support and the system
designed to provide that support leads the worst off in the society on
the way of development.
path. But every action of every man and women must be guided by a
common understanding that all are human beings and nurse the
same desire to live in peace for prosperity and progress. Creating
any obstacle in the fulfillment of that desire is inhuman and will
beget inhuman treatment in return to the disliking of all the parties.
Love, care and justice should be given a chance to settle in this
human society particularly in South Asia where all the ideas of
liberalism reigned for thousands of years. It is right time to move
towards a metamorphosis.

Instead of submitting to the dictates of the powerful vested interests of

the developed countries and the multilateral agencies, planning of
programs must be indigenous. Unless the foundation is laid to-day
there can be no overall development tomorrow. A self respecting
country led by a pro-people government should be proud of its strength
and accomplishment. It is time that experiment are carefully reviewed
to get the real picture of development. Designing model of
modernizing the economy, removing shackles that are impinging on
growth and thus rousing the nation with the vista of a strong economy
that could harness the nations ‘wealth’, tap its human resources and
ensure social well being of its people is the call of the day. All out
sincere work is necessary for forging a broad based and fighting unity
among the democratic humanist forces which is the only way to build a
real alternative to the political and economic hegemony of the new
class, a hegemony which is being whole heartedly practised and is
assuming an autocratic dimension. Intensifying this endeavor and thus
paving the way for the rise of a liberal democratic popular front against
the forces of disaster and ruthless offensive, is the most befitting way
to prove the growing political cooperation and united struggle of the
liberal forces.

All the men and women who inhabit Bangladesh are not cast in
the same mould. People live by different norms and find their
fulfillment in different ways. People differ in their instincts, their ideas
and their mental abilities. Society must find a way for the successful
development of each of its members and not force all to tread the same