Myopic Craze

We are watching the perplexing myopic 'craze' of our next generations at different 'chattars'. Their goal seems to be changing and their stands, shifting. Nobody can say what's the ultimate result of this craze. Some like to call it a surge of new wake-up but some are skeptical and afraid that this craze has already been misguided and misdirected. Albeit both the big parties are trying to take advantage of this new 'hubbub'(some may like to call it a new 'awakening')of our youth, but we observe with surprise that BNP has failed to catch the bus and for which they are most likely to suffer in the next election. Actually BNP is never comparable to the cunning and manipulative drives of AL. Right or wrong AL has a definite philosophy based on some values that most often take aggressive turns. Above all, even if mere verbally, they hold themselves as the 'dedicated' flag bearers of Bangabandhu. But BNP, on the other hand, is a bunch of opportunists and adventurist leaders, holding Shaheed Zia as their icon though they've miserably failed to maintain the integrity and honesty of their iconic leader who is even praised by his avowed opponents. Since opportunism can never be a deep-rooted ideal, the roles of the party members are often diverse and contradictory. Now it has reached a very crucial stage and whether the party will again come to power with popular support is very, very uncertain. It's also because the majority of the leaders in the BNP are mostly ex-bureaucrats and businessmen rather than matured players in the political arena. Evidently they often fail to correctly feel the pulse of the common people. While their leader Shaheed Zia had the wisdom of a 'statesman', his party has few or none like him - neither in vision & patriotism nor in honesty & integrity. In the recent times their top boss has perhaps lost the direction to which she should steer her party to. And the imminent outcome of her enigmatic manoeuvre may be devastating for her party. Let's hope it does not so happen because then there will be one party too big for the others to have the least influence on it which may result into the 'senility' or even death of our already suffocated 'democracy'.