Parliament Boycott in Bangladesh
An Unholy Race—Boycotting National Parliament
Introduction:
‘Of an unholy race’ and ‘JS boycotted, not the money’ are the two recent national news of a popular national daily. Although I have mentioned about only one daily newspaper news about boycotting Jatiya Shashshad ( JS) is not new in Bangladesh and now has become a common news piece for the newspapers specially when national election is knock at the door. Bangladesh Awami League (BAL) the present ruling party of Bangladesh has announced that they will hand over their power at 25th October, 2013 and the curtain of the ninth parliament shall drop (Dhaka Tribune, June 6, 2013). At this eleventh moment of the present government an assessment report has been published by one of the leading Civil Soocity Organization (CSO), Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB). This assessment report is more like a report card of the performance of the political parties of the Bangladesh. TIB has assessed how effective is our national parliament, traditionally known as JS. On 2nd June 2013, TIB has published its assessment report on the JS, titled as ‘Parliament Watch’. Back in 2009 TIB had published the first assessment report of the ‘Parliament Watch’ which basically covers the ninth parliament sessions of Bangladesh.
To know about this issue is important for many ways. First of all, in any kind of development ‘participation’ comes first and Bangladesh is a developing country and will be a developed country in very near future. Having a target of upgrade itself into a developed country, many development initiatives has been taken by the present and previous government. Moreover it is very appalling to mention that; majority portion of these development initiatives has gone into the vain just because of lack of public participation. I have mentioned about ‘participation’ because, national parliament of any democratic country is the place of participation and dialogue and debate. When in any issue participation,
Introduction:
‘Of an unholy race’ and ‘JS boycotted, not the money’ are the two recent national news of a popular national daily. Although I have mentioned about only one daily newspaper news about boycotting Jatiya Shashshad ( JS) is not new in Bangladesh and now has become a common news piece for the newspapers specially when national election is knock at the door. Bangladesh Awami League (BAL) the present ruling party of Bangladesh has announced that they will hand over their power at 25th October, 2013 and the curtain of the ninth parliament shall drop (Dhaka Tribune, June 6, 2013). At this eleventh moment of the present government an assessment report has been published by one of the leading Civil Soocity Organization (CSO), Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB). This assessment report is more like a report card of the performance of the political parties of the Bangladesh. TIB has assessed how effective is our national parliament, traditionally known as JS. On 2nd June 2013, TIB has published its assessment report on the JS, titled as ‘Parliament Watch’. Back in 2009 TIB had published the first assessment report of the ‘Parliament Watch’ which basically covers the ninth parliament sessions of Bangladesh.
To know about this issue is important for many ways. First of all, in any kind of development ‘participation’ comes first and Bangladesh is a developing country and will be a developed country in very near future. Having a target of upgrade itself into a developed country, many development initiatives has been taken by the present and previous government. Moreover it is very appalling to mention that; majority portion of these development initiatives has gone into the vain just because of lack of public participation. I have mentioned about ‘participation’ because, national parliament of any democratic country is the place of participation and dialogue and debate. When in any issue participation,