The political polarization of the country has become clear these days

Abdul Ghaffar Chowdhury Which way is the country? This question is now on everyone's lips. No one probably knows the right answer. I also know that if I say this, the truth will be lost. But for better or for worse, this political polarization was needed in the country. This political polarization started after the Great National Tragedy of 1975. On one side, the supporters of the war of independence, on the other side, the enemy of independence. After the massacre of 75, the enemy of independence took power. But there was no way to understand the appearance and character of this enemy.

Because even though political polarization has started, its face is still not clear. After the 1975 revolution, a group of military and civilian power-hungry people, who were supporters and participants of the liberation war, joined hands with the enemies of freedom to stay in power; They are also made partners in power. The journey of Bangladesh started in reverse. The flag of independent Bengal flies on the car of the assassins and brokers of 1971. Not only killing the leaders of the war of independence; Attempts were made to destroy the main pillars of the independence war one by one.

In this situation, the Jamaat was beaten in two places in the military camp. They could not wipe the scars of the genocide of 71 from their bodies. As a result, the BNP has created confusion in the country's politics by hiding its face as a ferocious wolf in the form of an innocent lamb under the political shelter of BNP. At times the mask of Jamaat has been torn due to Bangla Bhai or such militants or militant organizations. But they managed to put the torn mask back together by using the soul agent of Holy Islam in a novel technique.

As a result, even in the last 40 years, even though the country's politics has been polarized into two streams, its face could not be clearly grasped. If the trial of the 1971 war criminals had been started a little earlier, the appearance and character of this polarization would have been evident earlier. The terrorism that has now started in the country, would have started much earlier. The Jamaat was already armed and prepared with the help of the kings of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. It was hoped that Bangladesh's divided and weak democratic and secularist parties, especially the Awami League, would not be brave and capable of prosecuting war criminals.

As a result, they will not need to unveil the mask of the lamb and with the certificate of 'Moderate Democratic Muslim Party' from America, they will dominate the politics of Bangladesh first on the shoulders of BNP; Then, at the right time, they will kick BNP and establish a monopoly on power. In their own language - Bengali will be Afghan.

The emergence of One-Eleven and the absolute victory of the Awami League and the Grand Alliance in the last general election failed all the political calculations of the Jamaats. Awami League is now the absolute majority party in the parliament and is committed to the people of the country regarding the trial and punishment of the war criminals of 1971. Knowing this, the Jamaat spent a lot of money and started a propaganda campaign to thwart this trial at home and abroad. He also threatened to start a civil war in the country if the war criminals were prosecuted.

Sheikh Hasina is not a person to bow down to any threat, she has proved it long ago. However, his government may have had to stumble in the face of domestic and foreign obstacles to proceed with this process.
But last February, the huge mass gathering in Dhaka's Shahbagh demanding trial of war criminals and the rise of the young generation not only gave the Awami League government and the International War Crimes Tribunal the courage to continue the trial process, but also gave them the strength to execute influential and prominent war criminals like Delaware Hossain Sayeedi. Jamaat did not bring this mass uprising against them. They know that they do not have mass support behind them. However, if the young people did not come to the field, they thought that they would be able to attack Naxalite-style with their trained cadres and mercenaries and create chaos in the country and thwart the trial and execution of the war criminals.

But the mass uprising of Prajanm Chatwar dashed their hopes. As a result, Desperate Jamaat is desperately active in giving death bite to the government by creating Naxalite-terror in the country. They know they will not win by creating terror. Their objective is to terrorize the people of the country and isolate the government and the people; Then the government was dealt a final blow by omnipotence. Tribunal and subverting the trial.

First, it started with sneak attacks, burning cars and buses. Then Bogra, Rajshahi, Cox's Bazar, Sylhet etc; They have killed more than half a hundred people by attacking the police in places where they have their bases among madrassa students. Policemen are among the dead. But where the Naxalites did not win in India by carrying out more terrible terror than the Jamaats of Bangladesh, how will the Jamaat-terror succeed or win in the face of determined public resistance?

BNP's top leaders might have thought that the Jamaat had been training party cadres in subversive activities for so long that the current government would be forced to back down in the face of their daily attacks. For this reason, they did not give direct support to Jamaat-terror, they were waiting for the success of this terror. Their strategy was to give direct support to the Jamaat and not involve them in supporting war criminals; Good people will stay away and provide indirect support. Then if the Jamaat succeeds in creating anarchy in the country, they will rush to share that success. Again BNP-Jamaat alliance will rule in Bangladesh and this time it will be half Taliban rule if not full.

But there was a big mistake in BNP's calculations. They did not understand that Sheikh Hasina, the head of the Awami government in 1996 and Sheikh Hasina, the current head of the Awami government, are not the same person. Sheikh Hasina has changed and become stronger after suffering many blows and facing many conspiracies. Much more experienced. Therefore, Sheikh Hasina has entered the field with the same strictness in suppressing treasonous plots and destructive activities in Bangladesh that Indira Gandhi used to suppress Naxal and Maoist terrorism in India. Now there is a huge crowd by his side. Why would he be afraid?

Sheikh Hasina was not afraid. As a result, the Jamaat is able to create terrible violence in some places with cadre-based pocket terrorism, but it is not able to create a stalemate anywhere. Once by throwing flowers in the hands of the police, another time by killing the police - they are unable to move forward with any strategy. The Naxal movement did not succeed after 10 years of terror; It is doubtful whether the Jamaat will be able to continue this rampage for 10 months. The huge national outrage against them is still calm and non-violent. If this public anger roars due to the excesses of the Jamaats, then the existence of the Jamaats will disappear from Bangladesh.

I don't know what Khaleda Zia consulted with whom she came for treatment in Singapore. She has performed well as an actress by stepping on the ground of Dhaka. Throwing away the flower garlands brought to welcome him, he said, 'Genocide is going on in the country. At this time, is the reception of flower garlands in the dress he took?' Then adding one more day to the two-day (Sunday and Monday) hartal called by the Jamaat, he called the hartal on Tuesday as well.

I think, if I am not mistaken, he got the message from son Tarek sent from London while sitting in Singapore that no matter how much terror Jamaat inflicts in Bangladesh, they will not succeed. The government has the young generation with it, so the government will be successful in suppressing Jamaat-terror. In order to prevent the final defeat of the Jamaat and the killers and brokers of the 1970s, BNP has no choice but to stand by the Jamaat at this moment. Perhaps sitting in Singapore, he received the 'May Day' message from Dhaka as well, the government is strict in suppressing Jamaat violence; So BNP needs direct help and action to protect Jamaat. Khaleda Zia rushes from Singapore and stands by to protect the endangered ally. At the same time, BNP's stronghold Bogra saw the highest number of deaths in the first day of strike on Sunday. Jamaat-Terrorism and BNP's cooperation with it is fully responsible for this death.

As a result of this incident, the political polarization in the country that had been obscured for a long time, became evident. On one side of this polarization is the democratic and secular camp in favor of the country's independence, and on the other side the camp of the enemy of independence. BNP now joined the latter camp directly. The mask that they had for so long as the strength of the liberation war, the mask that was protected for so long by clapping, has been completely torn off and now BNP and Jamaat have the same character. If any leaders or workers who joined the liberation war are still in BNP, then it is time for them to decide which camp they will stay in?

As a result of another decision by Khaleda Zia, BNP and Jamaat are now two different names; But they have the same identical character and goal. Just two days ago, Begum Saheba visited Delhi and promised the Indian government that her party would no longer follow anti-India policies. Two days later, he joined the Jamaat-hartal and called a strike on a day when the President of India was returning to Delhi after his visit to Dhaka.

It is diplomatic decency, decency and courtesy; When a foreign government guest arrives in a country, the opposition party temporarily suspends strike-movement. If their protests or protests are against foreign guests, that is another matter. For example, when visiting a country as the president of America, George Bush had to face incidents like showing black flags and throwing shoes.

The current Jamaat protest in Bangladesh is not against India or the visit of the President of India to Bangladesh; This protest is against the Awami League government and the trial of 1971 war criminals. At that time, during the three-day visit of the President of India to Bangladesh, could not the three-day hartal of Jamaat and BNP be postponed a little to protect diplomatic norms? In the past, there are precedents of suspending strike movements during the visits of foreign statesmen. So why is that precedent broken now?

I am not surprised that Jamaat has abandoned this diplomatic decency. Jamaat is an anti-India sectarian group. His character is that of a terrorist. He has no democratic character. But BNP as a major political party known to be democratic and a parliamentary opposition party has a responsibility to honor foreign statesmen who visit the country. Now it appears that BNP is denying that responsibility by fully embracing Jamaat. Understanding and knowing the current polarization of the country's politics is now a difficult task for someone?
It is to be noted that one of the major aims of this strike is to thwart the visit of the President of India to Bangladesh and to try to humiliate him; It can be understood from fixing the date of the strike. He is staying in Bangladesh for three days - Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Jamaat has called hartal for the first two days. The homecoming day of the President of India is Tuesday. There is no Jamaat hartal on this day. Therefore, many political observers believe that the BNP called the hartal on Tuesday and put an end to the unfinished work of the Jamaat.

So, was the big purpose of calling this hartal by the two allied parties to express hatred of India or to try to insult the President of India? It is a diplomatic etiquette and custom that when a foreign statesman comes to the country, the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament pays him a courtesy call. According to this tradition, Khaleda Zia's meeting with the President of India was on Monday afternoon. Khaleda Zia has already informed that she will not be able to meet the President of India on the day of the hartal due to security reasons.

Earlier it was known that he will break the strike on the day of the strike called by the Jamaat and come to meet the President of India. Now that the decision has been reversed, many feel that he did it to keep the ally Jamaat happy on the one hand and to show contempt for India on the other. He may be trying to shake off the infamy he got after bowing to Dilisna during his recent visit to India.

I learned from the top sources of BNP that because Jamaat could not call a three-day hartal to thwart the visit of the President of India to Bangladesh, the BNP nethri has called this hartal from Singapore to cover the third day (Tuesday). Although he knows, this strike will not succeed. It will be scary. However, the Jamaats will be helped in terrorism.

This strategy of Khaleda Zia is so naked that India is not late to understand it. Khaleda Zia did not want to meet the President of India citing security reasons, it has been clearly stated by the Indian government that it has dishonored India. In this situation BNP suffered but Jamaat gained. BNP has been able to fully engage in achieving their political goals. Now it is not bad if BNP and Jamaat unite and take the name 'Bangladesh Nationalist Jamaat' just like the merger of the Social Democrat and Liberal Party of Billet and taking the name Liberal Democratic Party.

As I said earlier, no matter how much the Jamaat-BNP unites to create or increase political terrorism in Bangladesh, the political polarization of the country has become evident. The people have now begun to understand, which two camps are for and against independence? It is from this realization that the mass uprising of Shahbagh and its spread throughout the country. However, the terror of Jamaat and BNP will continue until they run out of breath, maybe it will take a more terrible form. This is what happened during the IRA in Britain and Naxalite terrorism in India. But did not succeed. Naxalite-terrorism lasted 10 years in India.

Even foreign political observers do not think that why Jamaat can sustain terror for 10 years or even 10 months in Bangladesh. Because this terrorism is not against a government anymore, but against the entire people of the country. The enemies of the people have ever won the final struggle with the people - there is no precedent in history. (Courtesy of Bangladesh News24.com).