BNP bosses' make-believe world

It is not difficult to imagine the level of desperation that people must have been driven to, that has compelled them to speak the unpalatable, even at the risk of invoking the displeasure of their top leadership. Should it fail to arrest, among other things, the unbridled price hike, the BNP will face a grim prospect in the next election, a great majority of the grassroots BNP leaders at the meeting opined. And they said what the public are saying; people will not be taken in by the ludicrous statement of the government that the prices of things are the lowest in Bangladesh and the rise in purchasing power will help them absorb the increase in prices of essentials. Whatever 'acclaimed successes' of the government there may be, it has been negated at home by galloping prices.

While one must credit the BNP for arranging meetings with their party men belonging to the lowest tiers of the organisation, to elicit their views on issues of national importance, one cannot but be disappointed that some senior BNP leaders chose to brush aside what their ordinary party men had to say, particularly on the issue of price hike. And just when their party men were delivering the unpalatable, the top BNP brasses chose to indulge in their old hobbyhorse of blaming the media.

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Instead of putting the blame elsewhere, it will be well for the BNP's top leadership to take heed of what their grassroots representatives have to say, for they voice the reality, and work to put things right.