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‘Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds’ (Part - 1)

Published : Monday, 19 November, 2018 at 12:00 AM  Count : 541
Mahbubar Rahman
Mahbubar Rahman

Mahbubar Rahman

Lilly is a flower widely adorned by beauty lovers around the world. It symbolizes ethereal beauty and develops aesthetic sense in human mind. A particular variety of Lilly called water-lilly grows in abundance in the tranquil and serene water-body in every nook and corner of Bangladesh. Prolifically growing with grandeur in the picturesque surroundings of sprawling vegetation in Bangladesh, water-Lilly is acclaimed to have occupied the coveted status of being national flower of Bangladesh. It has further duly ornamented our bank-notes and other legal instruments wherein its water print image stands high and enchants every Bangladeshi soul. Lilly is born to spread beauty and fragrance as long as it remains fresh and healthy in clean environment or in clean water-body. But when its rotting process starts, then it loses all its purity, beauty and fragrance and smells far worse than weeds as has been rightly expressed in a Shakespearian sonnet.

Likewise, if we draw an allegorical analogy of the above fact with the contemporary global situation, then we can see that political figures, statements, litterateurs, journalists, social activists and others coming from other walks of life who earn their life-term rapports and commendations by their noble works and spread fragrance in the corridor of society, at the crux of certain situation, take an abrupt u-turn with their moral turpitude and start walking indifferently in the blind alley of life, then obviously they plummet into the abyss of ignominy and sink into the morass of stagnation wherein they continue to rot and fester and smell far worse than inferior materials.

In the context of current political situation centring on upcoming national election in Bangladesh, with considerable trepidation, it has been observed that some political stalwarts of high personal rapport have started playing somersault and unduly ridding on bandwagon of a particular political party in the fold of Jatio Oikkya Front (JOF) where they are not supposed to belong to at least on moral ground as because of the fact that the stated particular political party do not bear in their mind and soul the spirit of our great liberation war and have political alliance with Jamat-e-Islami who opposed our liberation war and whose front line leaders have walked the gallows for their war crimes and crime against humanity in 1971.

It is strange to believe how a person like Dr Kamal Hossain, a nationally and internationally famed and acclaimed lawyer who still preach and practice his politics in the name of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and who in the recent past, while delivering his 42 minutes speech in the JOF meeting, uttered the name of Bangabandhu 56 time to the utter displeasure of his BNP ally as was visibly displayed in their body language in the meeting venue; forms a JOF by holding in its fold Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) as major player with Jamat-e-Islami in its arms and put forward their 7 points demands most of which do not go with the spirits and provisions of constitution. With unalloyed love and affection of Bangabandhu, Dr Kamal was raised to be a front liner Awami Leage leader holding senior ministerial position after independence. Regrettably he maintained impeccable reticence and refrained from making any statement after Bangabandhu was assassinated on Aug 15, 1975 when he was then abroad.

It is equally strange to observe how a valiant freedom fighter like Bangavir Kader Siddiqui Bir Uttam whose gun rattled ceaselessly  in the battle field in 1971 to stamp life bullets in the chest of occupation forces and their local collaborators, take the shelter under the silk apron of so called JOF where, by taking in its arms Jamat-e-Islami, BNP plays a dominant role to grab the State power towards fulfilling their long cherished agenda to airbrush the name of the father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the spirit of our glorious liberation war once again in line with what they did earlier when they were in the State power for long years.

A rabble-rouser young student leader in his youth, JSD leader Abdur Rob dubbed one of the four khalifas in pre-liberation time political movements, under the charismatic leadership of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who first raised Bangladesh's flag in Dhaka in occupied Bangladesh and who held a ministerial position in the Awami League government in 1996, joined in so called JOF with BNP and Jamaat clandestinely in its fold, is a matter to be reckoned with wonder. While threatening the members of the Election Commission (EC) he uttered recently wanton rage and fury that EC members have to stay in Bangladesh with their member of family after the upcoming national election is over. So, the EC members have to watch their steps, he further added by hurling volley of open intimidation to the members of the EC.

Once a firebrand student leader in his youth, turned a political leader, Mahmudur Rahman Manna with his choice of frequently changing political colour and with having served a political portfolio for years in Awami League has also joined the bandwagon of JOF with an abrasive loud voice. In his desperate attempt to have the taste of State power, he wants a dead body in the Dhaka University Campus which was exposed in his telephonic conversation with a fugitive BNP leader Sadek Hossain Khoka couple of months ago consequent upon which he had to go behind the bar for several months on charge of violating certain provisions of law and having been released on bail become active once again with his acerbic brand of rhetoric in the politics of JOF under the leadership of Dr. Kamal Hossain. With the quality of representing his own generation he could have been otherwise a good choice to come in the front line of country's politics. His spree of somersaulting to politics and high ambition to relish the taste of power quickly obviously reduced his chance to rise as national leader in the country's politics.

Extremely inimical and spiteful to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his party Awami League, ever since, he aparted himself from the politics of Awami League in early 1970s, Barrister Moinul Hossain became one of the advisers of 1/11 army backed caretaker government in a vile attempt to depoliticise Bangladesh. Reportedly he was instrumental to send Sheikh Hasina and other political leaders into the prison during caretaker government in fulfilling his agenda to depolticise Bangladesh. With no political party where he belongs to, Barrister Moinul surfaced with all agility to form Jatio Oikkay Front (JOF) with Dr. Kamal Hossain to lead the Front.

Bearing always a sense of arrogance in his mind-set-and trait as vividly displayed in his discourses and conversations, he recently expressed in his leaked telephonic conversation with one of his political accomplice that he brought Dr. Kamal Hossain in the limelight of JOF politics to destroy BNP's fugitive leader Tarek Rahman which naturally created uproar in BNP camp. Displaying his uncontrolled arrogance and ill behaviour pattern beyond all civility, Barrister Hossain recently called a lady journalist a woman of loose character in open T.V. talk show. In a defamation case for insulting a lady journalist in the talk show, he has been duty taken into custody and now languishing in the prison cell at Rangpur with a heave of sign and deep lament that his JOF appears to be apathetic and not so vocal towards bringing him to freedom from the paranoid anxiety of loneliness of prison cell.

(TO BE CONTINUED)..........

The writer is a former civil servant


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