The news about suing past leaders of the country is making head turns in Bangladesh. A politician named Salaudding Qader Chowdhury of BNP, is planning to sue or bring sedition charges against the three caretaker governments and EC officials. The controversial Mr. Chowdhury is accused of lying to the EC about his educational background during the Election of 2008 and tried to Gag the media for publishing stories about him on Daily Star Newspaper on June 11, 2003. He is also the top loan dafaulter of  Bangladesh in the recently published list from the finance ministry.

When I first hear the news I was thinking are you serious? How could a person with his repute can sue those three respected persons who has widespread support in Bangladesh and was instrumental in bringing the democracy to life in Bangladesh. How is that possible? Then I thought, the only reason this person is doing this is to grab news heading and with the idea that anything is possible in Bangladesh, where the bad person’s has more saying than the good and honest people. Its the way of life in 3rd world countries like Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. So no biggie, things will go on and subside in due time and corrupt persons will go unpunished.

But I have one say to the new government, enact a law that prohibits persons with dubious intentions can not sue the past governments whom ever it may be. There are situations when past leaders has to do things in their way for the sake of national security and running the nation, which might not make sense to ordinary people at that time but good for the long run as we are seeing in the case of the past caretaker government. Even in America the incumbent government never goes witch hunting against their past leaders for any reason. The might have different opinions on different things the goal is the same, to strenthen the country from its enemies and help democracy flourish.