Bangladesh’s newly formed political coalition

Zero plus zero plus zero plus zero is after all equal to zero

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by Anwar A Khan-Oct 16, 2018

( October 16, 2018, Dhaka, Sri Lanka Guardian) Signed zero is zero with an associated sign. In ordinary arithmetic, the number 0 does not have a sign, so that −0, +0 and 0 are identical. However, in computing, some number representations allow for the existence of two zeros, often denoted by −0 (negative zero) and +0 (positive zero), regarded as equal by the numerical comparison operations but with possible different behaviuors in particular operations. This occurs in the sign and magnitude and ones’ complement signed number representations for integers, and in most floating-point number representations. The number 0 + O are usually encoded as 0. Zero plus zero plus zero plus zero is after all equal to zero and so, it is not a fine line, at all.

Led by Gono Forum President Dr. Kamal Hossain, BNP, JSD, Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) and NagorikOikya (Citizen’s Unity) announced a new opposition political alliance named the JatiyaOikya Front, ‘National Unity Front’ on 13th October 2018 excluding Jukto Front (United Front) Convener AQM Badruddozza Chowdhury ahead of the upcoming National Polls in Bangladesh.  At the very outset, National Unity Front has faced a rift on the question of tying-up with JeI people, the dreaded killing squad who masterminded the mass murdering of millions of our people, molestation of 300 thousand of our mothers and sisters and many more unspeakable misdeeds during our glorified War of Independence in 1971.

The new coalition envisages realising 7-point demand, including the resignation of the government, dissolution of parliament, formation of an election-time neutral government and the release of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, and meeting other 12 goals.

The direful killing squad Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) has been recognised as a member of this newly formed coalescence. Dr. Kamal Hossain’s political party has no anchor on the soil of Bangladesh. He is a solitaryshowcase.  ASM Abdur Rob, the supreme leader of a bantam faction of a political party – JSD, one time a great revolutionary and contributed gigantically to the process of establishing Bangladesh in a bloody war in 1971 with the flagitious Pakistani military junta. He has now become a midget figure in the country’s political arena. Mahmudur Rahman Manna is a lone wolf in Bangladesh’s politics though once upon a time he was a famed student leader. Dr. Zafrullah Chowdhury is a veteran Freedom Fighter, physician, owner of GonoShashtya Hospital and a noetic of BNP politics. He is also a loner having no foot in politics.

Those of us, who are now sexagenarian, can hark back those of days of our glorified Liberation War of 1971 to attain Bangladesh and many extolled movements during the pre-independence days which eventually culminated our war with the savage Pakistani rulers to acquire an independent and sovereign state for us; for our people.

During my Dhaka University days of 1972-76, once upon a time, I found AFM Mahbubul Hoque and Mahmudur Rahman Manna as President and General Secretary of JSD Chhatra League. Hoque was a most brilliant student and an outstanding orator. His speech used to cast spell-bound on the audience of students, but when Manna began to speak, be it at DU’s Bot-tola or elsewhere, all students started to leave the locus spots as he was then a hapless speechifier. But with the passage of a long time, he, being an aged Dhaka University (DU) student, became a wondrous public speaker. I heard many of his addresses under the famed spot of DU’s banyan tree and at other places taking some breaks from my work-places. He left JSD politics and then joined BSD, a small splinter political party of JSD. After a little pause, he joined Awami League (AL), the largest political party in Bangladesh which had glorious past history and which led our Bengali nation to establish our own homeland. He left AL, and is now the Convener of Nagorik Oikya (Citizen’s Unity), a one-man show political platform and has no strongbasal in the country’s politics.

If one tries to read or try to know who is Mubaidur Rahman and it would then be adjuvant for anyone to agniseMahmudur Rahman Manna! An old famed adage says, “You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear” and I must say without any arrièrepensée that “he is not what he is.” In point of fact, he has gone back to the outfall at a far-off grime billet from where he has primitively sprung up.

Dr. Kamal Hossain was in abroad at the time of Bangabandhu’s brutal murder, but he was then touring abroad being Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Government’s Foreign Minister. He was then well-known throughout the world because of his outstanding educational background (his teacher Henry Kissinger also praised him aloud uttering the words “Dr. Kamal Hossain could speak better English than him” when he visited Bangladesh after we achieved independence and The Daily Ittefaq carried this news on its front page), and was also an accepted persona to the Western World leaders. He could have convened a press conference or more than that in the overseas countries to condemn the savage putting to death of the country’s Founding Father Mujib in the harshest language and marshalled immense backing of the famed world leaders. The history of Bangladesh would then have been different. But he did nothing.

After his return to Bangladesh (maybe sometime in 1979), I heard a speech of Dr. Hossain Hossain at a seminar at the DU’s TSC Auditorium where many prominent figures of political and social classes were present. I found him that he could not speak Bengali well. He spoke Bangla mostly in Urdu tone. Now he can speak very good Bangla. But that is not my point. The point is: Bangabandhu loved him so much because of his mettlesome educational status and intellectual calibre. He made him as the Law Minister and then the Foreign Minister at his Cabinet at such a young age of him. But where are his humanistic lineaments? I have heard that he is the legal counsel of so many multinational organisations and looks after their interests only, not for ours. He earns huge money through his legal profession. Have you ever heard that he has spent a single coin for the down-trodden people of our society? Have you ever heard that he has served his legal profession for poor people in the country at free-of-cost or at a minimal fee? What about his reciprocation for Bangabandhu and Bangladesh?

During pettifogger Ershad’s regime, he was once off-loaded from the plane when he tried to go abroad, but he chose to remain unsounded against this rough-cut shenanigan character. He is a man fond of ease and comfort in life. Politics is a very large science; here there is no short-cut pathway; politics means the mythos of political orientation and bring about greater welfare of people which are not the dominant allele in the character of Dr. Kamal Hossain. Being a politician, what is the contribution of Dr. Kamal Hossain to the country? If you ask this question to him directly, we think he will immediately enshroud his face.

Dr. B. Chowdhury, President of BikalpaDhara Bangladesh, a petite political party with no fundament or cornerstone in the soil of Bangladesh. He was instrumental among others who belonged to the anti-Bangladesh liberation force and strongly backed up self-declared President Gen Zia in introducing ‘Bangladeshi Nationalism’, ‘Bangladesh Zindabad’ like inglorious ism in the light of Pakistani spirit in opposing the glorious spirits up of Bangladesh in the country and sheer betraying the supreme sacrifices of our millions of valorous and patriotic people to ground Bangladesh in 1971.

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The new coalition envisages realising 7-point demand, including the resignation of the government, dissolution of parliament, formation of an election-time neutral government and the release of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, and meeting other 12 goals.

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Dr. B. Chowdhury’s father late Kafiluddin Chowdhury was a very senior politician (senior to BangabandhuMujib), belonged to AL and a MNA of the 1970 Pakistan-based national polls. B. Chowdhury personally drove his vehicle on-board of his father, crossed over the Indian border and joined our glorious Liberation War of 1971 to establish Bangladesh. But throwing away all his morals bare-facedly, he vauntingly pigged, ravened, downed and shored at the bivouac of anti-Bangladesh liberation camp and bootlicked the self-declared president Gen. Zia and his anti-liberation compadres. He was thrown out from the palace of Bangababhan by Khaleda Zia and her confederates. Once I saw him fleeing away to salvage his life riding at the backside of a motorbike like a stooge or a laughingstock at Mohakhali Railway crossing point being chased by some gawks of Begum Zia and her brigands.

Begum Zia is anerrant politician and supremo of the second largest political party in the country, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), has been convicted on graft charges lawfully and is now in jailhouse. Her son Tarique Zia, the de-facto chief of BNP, a fleer and hiding in UK, has been awarded lifecaptivity by the court for his notorious involution of 21st August 2004 grenade attack on the life of AL Chief and the current officeholder of Premier of Bangladesh.

BNP, the ill-famed political party, an illegitimate child born in the military bivouac after BangabandhuMujib’s brutal assassination in 1975, dared to kick to the very foundation of Bangladesh that we achieved in 1971 at supreme sacrifices of three million of our people and losing chastity of three hundred thousand of our mothers and sisters. It has come forth as a terrorist outfit and emerged in the new name of Jamaat-e-BNP. It has also taken refuge in the den of another criminal outfit-Jamaat-e-Islami and of perdition. There is a wise saying, “The devils would not listen to the Scriptures.” Canada’s Federal Court made a judicial decision on 25th January, 2017 to clearly call BNP as a terrorist organisation vide clause Nos. 37, 39, 41 and 50 (2nd paragraph) of its verdict.

Self-declared military President Zia was a flagitious baddie in Bangladesh’s politics! An ill star as he was in politics, his political life highlights a notorious, guileful egotistic politico; his character; and his actions were a full load of lies and buncombe. As a public persona, he was as ticklish as an imaginary creature, he diddled with politicians, people and even mulcted his party stalwarts and the army clique. He used to love to play with everybody only to gain control of the throne of Bangladesh by hook or by crook. The word “principle” was never found in his lexicon.

A politician with brightness and extremely intelligent must be a principled one, humble, and unpretentious, but Zia and her Begum have possessed demoniac pitilessness in the country’s politics. They are swaggering characters only to harm people and their legitimate rights. Hence, no memory is for such a highway man or woman of distinctly inferior lineaments; and their right place should be the outfall at a grime place. Being power-hungry, they have ghosted the Bangladesh’s throne was their only and to ascent to it, they didn’t bother for any rationales; rather, they danged to invoke evils only in connivance with the anti-Bangladesh liberation force to demean and belittle our glorified Liberation War of 1971 and the glorious gains that we attained.

Jamaat-e-BNP people are not befitting human beings. Maudud, Fakhrul, Rizvi (a gothic man) …have now uncloaked their own debilitating cheap and shoddy grapheme. Like all other malefactors, they also havecrossfiled their names as snotty-nosed.

This bevy group of people has resorted to misleading falsehood anew like their brutish forerunners. When you pull back or look back, you may remember that this Begum boastfully described Jamaat-e-Islamisupremo and a gangster of 1971 Human Tragedy-Golam Azam and his lieutenants as political prisoners. Look at that woman’s inward heart. We can at once safely say “deceit thy name is Jamaat-e-BNP.” Before the upcoming national election, Dr. Kamal Hossain and his present mobsters along with BNP in connivance with the country’s hydra- Jamaat-e-Islami sub-humans may create harum-scarum and slaphappy, but their dare-devilish acts shall have to be smacked-down in a flash for betterment of the country.

We must also not forget that the anti-Bangladesh liberation force may be kept dumped for a short while by their foreign Beelzebub and their feudatory states. This evil spirit may conjure up to deadening dissembles to the country and our people without premeditation with the cover-up services by those archfiends. We must be vigilante to thwart their any malefic elbow grease tout-de-suite.

We should also not blank out grimed-faced manacles outshout purposive of disembodied vociferation and a disembodied spirit’s fiction. This grapheme may be described as excogitating, ugly duckling, despicable, malefic figure…having many hats! I have put across the verity in order in this whole write-out.

Bangladesh was liberated from the roughshod seizes of Pakistani military regime in 1971 because of supreme sacrifices of millions of our people and losing chastity belts by three hundred thousand of our honourable sisters and mothers.

So many of us went to the war field in 1971, fought valiantly and gave a crushing defeat to the Pakistani side, but I must say many freedom fighters and strong supporters of our glorious Liberation War to attain our own homeland in 1971 have later on turned or sided them into or with the anti-liberation forces. Self-declared President Gen Zia, once a veteran FF, emerged as a member of anti-Bangladesh liberation force, sided with them unashamedly and vauntingly reinstalled politically those sub-humans belonged to Jamaat-e-Islami like killing outfit and some other minor or smaller political parties who had adjunction with our biting enemy – Pakistani regime and who were on the run both at home and abroad because of their grave criminal offences. Those vile, treacherous and loathsome characters first bull-dozed down the four core pillars of our glorious constitution of 1972 only for their self-interests.

We graved two-nation theory through achieving Bangladesh in 1971. In fact, Bangladesh was created for all people irrespective of religions to live together in peace. The names of so many more living and dead Punic personas including Gen Zia, GenErshad, Khaleda Zia…can be adduced who did consecrate legal injuries barefacedly to the true spirits and values that we achieved through establishing Bangladesh in 1971. All these traitors must not escape the tight-rope of justice.

In 1971, I saw in my own eyes that the majority members of a family went to the battle fields to fight valorously with the brutal Pakistani forces and their local mango-twigs and established Bangladesh, but one or two members of the same family sided (in a rare case) with the Pakistani government. I also witnessed a fearless and patriotic member of our FF group was compelled to kill his father who carried out brutal atrocities to our freedom-loving people.  So, to bring in Dr. Kamal Hossain, Dr. B. Chowdhury, ASM Abdur Rob, Mahmudur Rahman Manna, Dr. Zafarullah Chowdhury and their congeners or their otherwise roles, are extraneous, not perfect; but defective or inadequate. We must reckon whether a FF or its supporters uphold the noble cause of our Liberation War unto their death with no deflection.

Al-Jajeera TV, Toby Cadman, LA Carlile, Dr. Ghumdi, David Bergman… are widely known as malevolently paid agentive of Jamaat-e-Islami like sub-humans; killing squad; a rancid like ram-rod which is excoriated gratingly in many parts of the world for its felonious deeds; many of Al-Jajeera TV’s so-called journos were punished worldwide for their life-threatening misdoings; and beaucoup of them are still in jailhouses for their denigrated and slanderous engagement in many parts of the world. Al-Jajeera TV operations should be completely shut down in Bangladesh sooner for its begriming gages!

The actors of the newly constitutedbond are a big zero and grandiloquent cretins.  These actors that join politics are flops everywhere. The media should not pay any attention to such scalawag politicians. Wrong again. Stacking rocks on rocks for an hour might produce nothing of value. In the medieval framework, all candy bars would have their values set by fiat. Bypassing that would be cheating. Something a hag would do. Obviously you cannot increase the fiat value by trading them around, so there’s no need to even consider that. It can be negative-sum game for damaging to the country to a great extent. For example, if you wage a war there is certainly some destruction involved plus expenses that are only used for the war. At the end, there might be a winner and a loser, but the total sum of the goods will be decreased.

It can be zero-sum game for Dr. Kamal Hossain, ASM Abdur Rob, Mahmudur Rahman, Dr. Zafrullah Chowdhury and the likes of them. The stock exchange is sometimes described as a zero-sum game, because it doesn’t create nor lose value, only redistribute it. Of course, this is true only for some idealised exchange that we use as example. They have fallen into the ground-emplaced mine because it is luculent that under the cover of trammeling or trapping of them, the anti-Bangladesh liberation bivouac would get the larger benefits but not for benefits of Bangladesh’s people, liberation war, its spirits, our glorious national fag, our national anthem…

The quadruple characters of National Unity Front under the stewardship of Dr. Kamal Hossain would be used as cat’s-paw under the veiled cover-up to batter the country ineffably by the anti-Bangladesh liberation force.The quadruplet or more so “zeroes”, adding when they come together, nothing comes out of it. Besides that, their political parties are veryLilliputian in their scale of power and influence upon people.

That’s all the verities about those vagrants in Bangladesh’s politico. Dr. Kamal Hossain’s daydream to be the Premier or President of Bangladesh is a very remote possibility; rather, his life is at full risk because he is now surrounded by his own new-fangled of people of coup-de-grace.

The Election Commission must conduct a free and fair election. The polls-time government must ensure that a free and fair election is held.

The government shall have to be changed through ballots, but those unsavoury people do not have any constituencies to run for memberships for Bangladesh’s parliament to emerge as victorious to form the government and the common voters do not even know them.  Every one of them will lose in the election as they do not have any base in the general voters. We ingeminate that zero plus zero plus zero plus zero is after all equal to zero and so, it is not a fine line, at all.

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