I'm very skeptical of the economic reform commission. All they will do is create a committee of so-called enlightened men and women who have a bunch of arbitrary power to investigate someone for "corruption". There will many more stupid regulations on the banking sector despite the fact most of the NPLs were concentrated in the public sector banks.
Instead of having of anti corruption committee, perhaps they should stop passing so many stupid laws.
Besides the real reform would be privatising state owned assets and indexing public sector wages back to the pre 2015 levels. It will substantially reduce our debt, increase productivity and enable the government reduce tariffs which makes up a significant proportion of our tax revenue. But unfortunately these proposals does not fall in the category of Muslim middle class populism so they wouldn't be enacted.
Given that right after Mujib's assassination, the Jamat Islamic party was legalised despite their overt opposition to our national independence and collaboration in the Bengali genocide. Given that by the 80s the dictator had declared bangladesh as an Islamic state, the concern of Bangladesh becoming an Islamist country is 100% justified. Even I'm worried about this.
Just a few days ago the ISKON members are being arrested for sedition. What a fucking joke. If the same standard was applied to Muslim leaders, 95% of them will be jail right now.
People are quick to bring up India's support for the Hasina regime. But where is the populist anger against China and the Gulf monarchies who also supported the regime. Both of these actors also supported Pakistan during the war and were against our independence. Many current day populists will bring up America's support for Pakistan during the war as well but selectively exclude these other actors. Curious how the memory of the Muslim middle class works.
It also isn't helped by the fact that right after the revolution, there has been all this elite level media hype around expanding relations with Pakistan, Maldives and Egypt.
I'm very skeptical of the economic reform commission. All they will do is create a committee of so-called enlightened men and women who have a bunch of arbitrary power to investigate someone for "corruption". There will many more stupid regulations on the banking sector despite the fact most of the NPLs were concentrated in the public sector banks.
Instead of having of anti corruption committee, perhaps they should stop passing so many stupid laws.
Besides the real reform would be privatising state owned assets and indexing public sector wages back to the pre 2015 levels. It will substantially reduce our debt, increase productivity and enable the government reduce tariffs which makes up a significant proportion of our tax revenue. But unfortunately these proposals does not fall in the category of Muslim middle class populism so they wouldn't be enacted.
Given that right after Mujib's assassination, the Jamat Islamic party was legalised despite their overt opposition to our national independence and collaboration in the Bengali genocide. Given that by the 80s the dictator had declared bangladesh as an Islamic state, the concern of Bangladesh becoming an Islamist country is 100% justified. Even I'm worried about this.
Just a few days ago the ISKON members are being arrested for sedition. What a fucking joke. If the same standard was applied to Muslim leaders, 95% of them will be jail right now.
People are quick to bring up India's support for the Hasina regime. But where is the populist anger against China and the Gulf monarchies who also supported the regime. Both of these actors also supported Pakistan during the war and were against our independence. Many current day populists will bring up America's support for Pakistan during the war as well but selectively exclude these other actors. Curious how the memory of the Muslim middle class works.
It also isn't helped by the fact that right after the revolution, there has been all this elite level media hype around expanding relations with Pakistan, Maldives and Egypt.
"law and order has improved dramatically"
Idk what cold-aid this guy is on. The crime statistics of Bangladesh isn't worth the paper it's written on.