Election 2008

Election Manifestos of the Parties:

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Bangladesh's 'begums' battle to return to power

by priyo.com | December 24, 2008 - 3:43pm

DHAKA (AFP): Bangladesh's feuding former prime ministers are fighting to return to power in elections next week that will restore democracy after two years of army-backed government.

Despite international hopes that Bangladeshi politics could open up a new chapter, either Sheikh Hasina Wajed or Khaleda Zia -- nicknamed the "battling begums" for their longstanding rivalry -- will soon be back in control.

Both women, from opposing political dynasties, were jailed for a year on corruption charges by the current regime but deals have seen them released from custody to ensure they take part in Monday's vote.

Sheikh Hasina, who is seen as the favourite to win, ruled Bangladesh from 1996-2001 but has struggled to escape from the shadow of her father who led the country to independence before being assassinated in a military coup.

The killings in 1975 wiped out almost all of Sheikh Hasina's family including her mother, three brothers, and father, president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who led Bangladesh in its liberation struggle against Pakistan in 1971.

Sheikh Hasina and her sister were abroad at the time of the killings.

In August 2004, she also survived an apparent assassination attempt when a grenade attack at a political rally left more than 20 people dead and saw her car raked with bullets as she fled the scene.

Born in 1947, Sheikh Hasina was active in student politics and married scientist M.A. Wajed Miah in 1968. They have two children who both live in the United States.

In 1990, she joined forces with Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Zia to help oust military dictator Hussain Muhammad Ershad.

Zia, a reluctant recruit to politics after the assassination of her husband, president Ziaur Rahman, went on to become Bangladesh's first woman premier despite critics who dismissed her as a politically inexperienced housewife.

Zia, who held power between 1991-1996 and 2001-2006, was a 35-year-old mother of two young sons when her husband, a former military chief who played a key role in the independence war, was killed in an attempted coup in 1981.

She was propelled into politics by the desertion of many BNP stalwarts to the government of Ershad, who she suspected of plotting against her husband.

When elections aimed at giving legitimacy to Ershad's dictatorship were held in 1986, Zia took a gamble by boycotting them. Critics said the BNP would be wiped out but her defiant stance was popular with voters and later helped her to win power.

Four years later, after she and Sheikh Hasina helped oust Ershad, Zia went on to triumph over her temporary ally in the country's first free elections in 1991. The ballot marked the start of their long and bitter rivalry.

Their mutual dislike, played out by supporters in violent street protests, was widely blamed for the January 2007 political crisis that prompted the military to step in, impose emergency rule and set up a caretaker government.

Zia's second term as head of a four-party Islamist-allied coalition was marred by rampant corruption and a string of deadly bombings by Islamic extremists in 2005.

With the Islamic party Jamaat-e-Islami as her biggest coalition partner, Zia was accused of a slow response to rising militancy, something Sheikh Hasina has used against her in the lead up to next week's polls.

Both women regularly called national strikes and conducted parliamentary boycotts during their time in opposition, leading to accusations that they undermined democracy.

The current government tried unsuccessfully to force them into exile as part of its efforts to clean up the country's notoriously corrupt and dysfunctional political system.

Commentators say that Sheikh Hasina is most likely to win, but that the result is not certain. If the voting is close, ironically it could be Ershad, who leads the Jatiya Party, who acts as kingmaker.

Some Bangladeshis send theirs opinion to www.bangladesh-television.com and described the situation in Bangladesh and suggested the followings for the future election:

1. The Parties are corrupt

- the parties do not follow the principles of the democracy but "family dictatorship"

- Nomination for the elections take place as follows:

a. Family members and relatives first
b. who pays the highest amount to the party leadership.

- Criminal network from word member of municipality until the highest office of the country.

- Each politician maintains an armed troop
- Armed troops collect extortion money and make the politicians and themselves rich.

2. Corruption from the local council until the Prime Minister (95%)

- All orders and Tenders are assigned only with bribes
- New appointments of employees and their transfers are accomplished only with bribes
- Nepotism has priority.

3. Corruption in the Administration (95 %)

- Without paying bribes nothing works at all
- Public works in any govt.-office should be hanged months-long.

4. Administration does not work

- Very old administration system
- Personal influence of politicians control the administration
- The politicians do not want reforms of the administration, because it could cut the way or possibility to make the corruption.

Administration of Bangladesh is totally corrupt. Without paying bribes nothing works at all.
This is a crime against the nation. The nation should be protected and released the from hand of organised gang of criminals ( Politicians, Govt. and Administration ). This would be challenge.

The administration should be reformed totally.

5. Corruption in Justice

- judgements could be influenced with bribery ( they make an innocent one as guiltily )

6. Corruption in Police department

- Without paying bribes nothing works here at all too.
- Police co-operate with criminal gangs and politicians.

7. National enterprises are exploited by the Govt. employees

- even the employees of the lowest salary class of gas enterprises, water section
  or power stations etc. become $ multi-millionaires through getting bribes.

8. Health service system is catastrophic

- Hospitals and physicians make business with private laboratories / hospitals on
  the cost of the patients.
- Products inclusive food and medicines are falsified and they apply banned toxically
  chemicals make them durable.

9. Development aids, foreign aids and aid goods

- The cabinet members, the governing party and their helpers and helpers helper
  divide foreign aids and aid goods / funds among themselves.
- Poor people get not more then 10 %.

10. Student Politics

- all college and university student are organized in different "student parties",
  these parties are extended arms of main parties (government party and opposition
  parties).

11. Corruption in Education system

- Without paying bribes no one can get admitted their children to the kindergarten
  or in the School.

12. Future election in Bangladesh

- 90% politicians are corrupt,
- 90% of all cabinet members last 36 years were corrupt,
- they have/had no moral,
- they have destroyed "Law & order" of the country,
- they have killed innumerable humans and organised killing.

Therefore,

a. all existing political parties of Bangladesh, who were involved in the
    government in the last 36 years, should be forbidden.

b. Members of the existing political parties and members of the last governments
    of last 36 years should not be permitted as follows:

I. Establishment of a political party
II. active participation in the politics
III. Participation in the election as a candidate