Victory Day resolve

Victory Day is an occasion for jubilation as well as deep introspection for the nation which paid such a high price for political freedom. The euphoria surrounding the Day will never die down, but we still have to ask ourselves whether the dreams of the martyrs of the Liberation War have been fulfilled, and whether we have achieved as a nation the goals set by the architects of our independence. The truth of the matter is that a nagging divisiveness in the political arena continues to debilitate the nation; economic emancipation of people is a distant target; and social security still eludes us as law and order remains a sore point.

We can never pay back the debts that we owe to the heroes who laid down their lives to give us a better future. But our indebtedness to the great souls increases with every failure, as we move away from building the society that they dreamt of.

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So, unity is the crying need of the hour and no occasion is more suitable for the nation to take a fresh vow to rise above crass divisiveness that cannot ensure collective good than the 33rd anniversary of our independence.

Political freedom is not an end in itself but a means to an end which is the economic emancipation of the people. That is what the hard-earned independence is all about.