Bangladesh - News And Discussion

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A top functionary of the Bangladesh Bank has taken over as the head of the interim Government. In fact, in the last 72 hours the President has gone back in his earlier assertions that there is no legal provision for postponing the general elections and as such the voters list cannot be re drawn. He has now accepted the demands of the 14 party alliance and all indications are that the voters list will certainly be revised before the actual holding of the elections. Now it appears, the real power has passed on to the Army and no action is taking place without its approval. The presence of the Army in the streets of the major towns gives a reassuring sense of confidence amongst the common people who have become fed up with the last four months of political turmoil.
It is expected that the interim government will take a number of actions to ensure the conduct of free and fair election which will be acceptable to the international community. The wide spread corruption, a committed judiciary and the rise of fundamentalists have not gone unnoticed in the Army circles and it is expected that the present caretaker government with the help of the Army will try to blow up the scandals and discredit some of the undesirable political activists, so that in the future a cleaner political scene will prevail in Bangladesh.