Editorial
Jalil's faux pas again!
What good has it done to the party and his self?
AL leader Abdul Jalil's observation that his party reached some kind of understanding before the last general elections indeed sounds like a gimmick coming from an unhappy party veteran. What more it is outright petulant and, needless to say, highly irresponsible.
First of all, it is incomprehensible why Jalil should say something that could only demean and embarrass the very party of which he is an adviser and with which has had a very long association. He was totally oblivious of the fact that it could create unnecessary confusion in the public mind.
But if he thinks he will be taken seriously than that notion cannot certainly be borne out by his track record of unsubstantiated comments made in a huff and without regard for any likely fallout. One can hardly forget the 'trump card' trick that he played so vigorously to predict a doomsday scenario for BNP in 2004.
If Jalil had any point to make against his party leaders he should have done so as an adviser to the party within the party forum, instead, he went public and that too overseas. Why should he have made any comment far less a serious allegation in a foreign country.
Again reportedly a wrathful reaction was shown against Jalil in London which was not the right way to go about it in a democracy. For, there are civilised ways of dealing with a non-conformist in a party just as there is a responsible manner in which to express dissent or a different point of view.
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