AL and BNP, the largest political party of Bangladesh is ruled by two rival ladies who does nothing but fight each other. Throughout their existence these two ladies hated each other like no other and in the process damaged the reputation and progress of the country to a great extend. Their rivalry is so much that if one goes to any party (except the Armed forces day party of course) the other avoids the same.
Leaders are suppose to show qualities that make them far apart from others by being compassionate, far reaching, thoughtful, patriotic and above all visionary. What we got in Bangladesh is nothing of this sort. Our two ladies are not thoughtful, patriotic only when it comes for the vote and not at all visionary. They only follow others but failed to provide any guidance for others to follow.
BNP is leaned towards Pakistan and AL is leaned towards India and their relations with these two countries take precedence over Bangladesh.  If one takes a positive idea then the other will completely cancel that even if that is meant well for the country. One example is the community clinic of AL, when BNP came to power it completely cancelled the project even though it was meant good for this country. AL on the other hand started the name game approach and started changing various named institutions that was named after Zia out of sheer jealousy. They are slowed down the Old home project for elderly that was initiated by BNP. Upazila was another project that was cancelled by BNP that was initiated by Ershad of Jatio Party.
BNP when comes to power always gives importance to the Defense forces and tries to strengthen them, AL on the other hand by virtue of its Indian leniency tries to slow the progress and make it more dependent on India. AL also recently stopped Oil and Gas exploration right to multinational companies in the Bay of Bengal blocks to satisfy its master India.
Both of these leaders failed to nurture any democratic norms in their own party even though they talk about democracy with their loud speaker. AL leader Hasina is autocratic in its own party and makes all the major decisions without any accountability or challenge. BNP leader Khaleda is supreme in her own party. She chooses all the presidium members without any challenge and consent. Both of these leaders have no future leadership opportunity for others except their own son’s and family members. It’s all about family business to them. Hasina has Joy who is as ignorant as a mule when comes to politics and BNP has Tareq who some say is the most corrupt person in Bangladesh. So who is going to lead this country when they are gone…..after all they are not immortal!
In the end Bangladesh needs a visionary and patriotic leader who can lead this country to the twentieth century. These two leaders failed in all extend to lead this country. We need new leaders and new people with different thought process. It’s about time they retire and let others lead. Otherwise the people will someday take matters in their own hand and deposed them completely.