Deployment of armed forces has mixed reaction

Armed forces can not be the panacea of the problems that we face in our society or political life today. Good governance can only be achieved if our representative government has a minimum agenda of public welfare and strict to it. When rich people rush to the public during vote harvesting season with bagful of unaccounted money to hire goons and propaganda machines, inaudible voice apart of the self-praising Election commission, power is bound to recline on the muscles, not on popular mandate. There are obviously three helpless elements in the whole extravaganza. The election commission with borrowed apparatus and half sleeve laws in freezing cold, the spread of the law enforcing agencies and armed forces, look like seagulls restlessly flying around iceberg and of course the bemused electorates clapping at the stage managed drama. Politics is indeed, pathetically marginalized by abuse. Now that the election is over it is time for the fortunate ones to look for the return of investments plus profit, plus handsome risk premium for it is a high risk gambling and of course, another bagful for the next election. And they have only five years to go. They are in serious business and smart managers of money. Don't believe it? Did you hear over Tk 90 million, precisely 10% of Tk 910 million tender works of Metropolitan Dhaka, were already distributed among the Ward Commissioners before the work could start. And the genuine contractors could not even collect the tender Schedules or drop them in the designated boxes. No wonder Government had to ensure the journalists that there would be speedy trial if they were murdered. I am convinced; some of the journalists endanger their lives everyday for a paltry living if that is what the only consideration. Members of the parliament are much above the level of ward commissioners with many millions of taka investment on the maximum face value of half a million. If these continue unabated we soon will have Kala Faruques, Kala Jahangirs and all Kalas in our architecturally glorious sovereign parliament. With the deployment of the armed forces expectations shoot like mercury. Asking forces intelligence to keep an eye on civil society in democracy is self