Infructuous Parliament
Another session of the parliament has got underway with the main opposition BNP outside the House. We had observed in this column earlier and we reiterate once again that the boycott policy BNP has been pursuing is endangering the future of democratic culture in the country.
Even if the CHT peace agreement which BNP is now projecting as a stumbling block on their way to a possible return to parliament demands that it take its rightful position in the parliament to debate the matter. If the agreement is so harmful for the country as the party seems so convinced about it, it is all the more imperative for the party to discuss it in the parliament and register their protest in its hallowed precincts.
By staying away from the House it is not only doing injustice to its own argument but also doing a great disfavour to itself; because if it sees itself as a party beyond now and today it should understand that it is morally obligated to its future electorate to record its opposition to a treaty it deems as being against the interest of the country. In its ardour for antiparliamentary inclination the party seems to have forgotten that MPs enter a moral covenant with the electorate whenever they seek votes to participate in parliamentary sessions. We urge the BNP to change its policy for the future of this country, for the future of democracy.
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