Stop causing pointless disruptions by showing excessive political gusto

When there are so many critically important national issues to be addressed - some of our politicians needlessly makes a mountain out of a mole by giving birth to pointless controversy. This time the hullabaloo surrounds the portrait drawing of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib by a ten year old and it's after effects. Understandably, there was nothing objectionable about the drawing and expecting paramount perfection from a ten year old is not logical either.
However, referring to the quality of drawing and printing it in the invitation card by the Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) of Barguna, the suspended religious affairs secretary of Barisal Awami League and President of the District Bar Association sought Tk 5 crore by lodging a defamation case against the UNO last month. First of all, it is an act of pointless overt enthusiasm, and secondly the filing of the defamation case clearly hints at how he repeals his victims by exploiting legal tools unethically. We don't expect such intolerable, needless and resentful political actions from our politicians, and especially from a responsible person heading a local bar Association.

“The message, however, instead of indulging in meaningless submissive acts while spreading their selves thin - politicians or party loyalists in the likes of Mr. Sazu should focus more on rendering public service so to honestly place themselves in the good books of the party high-ups. The disturbing case has not only backfired but also serves as a shocking eye-opener to endless greed and over ambition of our small-scale politicians.”

Even the Prime Minister was shocked and vehemently criticised at what the Barisal AL leader had done. However, in the face of extreme public criticism and political pressure from upper quarters the suspended Barisal Awami League leader Obaidullah Sazu was forced to withdraw the case he filed against UNO Tariq Salman three days ago.
Concerning the incident there was actually no practical reason for filing it in the first place. Also the occurrence is a stark reminder of extreme degree of blind allegiance resulting in detestable actions - doing more harm to the party image than benefitting it. Political allegiance for a party activist is a must, but we expect that allegiance or political loyalty to be decent, logical and tolerant. What happened surrounding the defamation case clearly shows that many of our unbefitting and intolerant politicians would practically do anything to please the party high command.
The message, however, instead of indulging in meaningless submissive acts while spreading their selves thin - politicians or party loyalists in the likes of Mr. Sazu should focus more on rendering public service so to honestly place themselves in the good books of the party high-ups. The disturbing case has not only backfired but also serves as a shocking eye-opener to endless greed and over ambition of our small-scale politicians. Moreover, following the incident both the DCs of Barisal and Barguna were withdrawn and the government has formed a 5-member probe body to investigate into the pointless clamour. Eventually the impact is having an awful ripple effect while eating up valuable government time and resources.     
Some may label Sazu's penalising as a form of damage control by the government, but then again the question automatically arises - in the place of suspension, what would have been the most suitable form of punishment? 

Fortunately the PM being a rational thinker in this regard reprimanded the filing of the defamation case by suspending the Barisal AL leader. The case, instead of benefitting the petitioner became the sole cause of his downfall too. We want our politicians to draw lesson from the incident while refrain from taking illogical, stupid and intolerant political actions. Lastly, unacceptable dim-witted actions to please party high-ups may well prove that such over-enthusiastic loyalists to be outright fakes. Good that now one of the phony AL loyalist has now been exposed, but for the government it is more than imperative to carry out an extensive  'litmus test' among the many hundreds of its local politicians so to verify which ones are actually genuine.       

The writer is a journalist and columnist