News coming out from different news organization depict a rather sad tale of BNP. BNP supporters are frustrated, downhearted and without any real goal. To get BNP out of this mud hole there are couple of things that it can do to re image itself to the ordinary people. Below is a list of steps that it can take.
1. Bring the old reformists to the BNP specially Mannan Bhuiyan and his group.
2. Remove old guards and controversial leaders from the party and make sure anyone with corrupt credentials like Tareq, Koko, Mamun, Babar can not come back to BNP. We know it was the corrupt ministers, MPs and their relatives who destroyed the image of the party.
3. Take grassroots leaders recommendations to democratically revitalize the party. Take the bottom up approach instead of top to the bottom. The party leaders should be elected not thrust upon and through vote.
4. Remove Jaamat out of the alliance and stop gambling with BNP’s reputation. BNP’s reputation was damaged due to its attachment to Jaamat.
5. Reconstitute the party committees with younger leaders with clean image and honest attitudes.
6. Create a new constitution with in the party that adheres and practices democratic norms and not some family politics.
7. Hold central council session as specified in the constitution every two years or even change that to every year.
8. Change the old mentality of politics, hartal, attitude of boycotting the parliament.
9. Accept the defeat and congratulate the new government. Lend in hand to work with the party.
10. Stop grudging against the CTG and take responsibility for its own mistakes and congratulate CTG for a fair and clean election.
It is the grassroots leaders who are the bread and barter of BNP and they should be treated with respect and their comments should be taken seriously. Only then BNP can come out of its misery and be a viable leading party. Bangladeshi will surely give them the right credit they deserve if they can play it right.
