Editorial
Poll
results convey a serious message
1.
AFTER the June 15 city corporation poll results, the prime minister is putting
on a brave face.
2.
However, she should not be deluded (বিভ্রান্ত করা) into thinking that it is a passing show.
3.
Of course, the government can take credit for ensuring conditions of a free and
fair city corporation polls that saw a high voter turnout.
4.
There was no administrative interference in the working of the EC.
5.
But then this is not to be expected of a democratically elected government.
6.
That said, she cannot make a short shrift (দায়)
of the comprehensive defeat is not only the mayoral contests, but also in those
of councillors.
7.
Ruling party should go for soul-searching as to why its candidates failed
despite the fact that during their mayoral tenure they had carried out
impressive development work in their constituencies and they were also
personally popular.
8.
In other words, it is the party’s image that seems to have brought them down.
9.
As for the prime minister’s contention in parliament on Sunday that the just
concluded city polls have ‘proved there is no need for any unconstitutional regime (সরকার পদ্ধতি) to hold free and fair elections,’
it is an irony that she was not being seized of the expectations on the ground.
10.
She should be able to face facts that by voting against her party candidates
the electorate in a way has only expressed its no confidence in a government on
however limited scale it may be.
11.
The AL can ill-afford to ignore facts with only a few months left for the next
general election.
Published: June 18, 2013