Making peace
M.A. Alim, Ex-Banker, Indira Road, Dhaka
Dr Martin Luther King Jr is known all over the world. About peace he said, "Many men cry peace! peace! But they refuse to do the things that make peace." From the above it is clear that peace will only prevail in any country when those things which are needed for peace are put into work. We also cried for peace in the recent past, doing everything against it! Now it is time to work for real peace.Let us see what deprived us of peace. These are faulty voter list, demand for Voter ID card, National ID card & EC reform, fair election etc. Let us now see how far we have progressed. A new EC has been constituted to the satisfaction of all political parties & people at large. Persons constituting the commission are capable of handling the situation they are facing. Their main tasks are preparation of a faultless voter list, Voter ID card, National ID card with fingerprint etc. They have already started working. Necessary equipments will have to be imported and that will require sufficient time. Let us remind those who want hasty solutions that the nation should be guided by pragmatic and rational principles, or else we will be deprived of the desired results. Let them work as they are doing without fear or favour. Any hasty action may spoil the whole thing. Patience and patience alone can give us the peace which is within our sight. Let our well wishers know that the people of Bangladesh are happy with the government which is on the right track. We have hundreds of authors, thinkers, poets, philosophers, scholars and politicians in the country who can render invaluable service to the nation. I finish with a saying of Abraham Lincoln: "I do not think much for a man who is not wiser today then he was yesterday." So we will advice our politicians to give a better account of themselves in the days ahead.
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