No improvement in law and order after elections, mob violence and extortion increased: CPB

The Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) has alleged that the country's law and order situation has not improved even five months after the national parliamentary elections. Rather, the party claimed that terrorism, mob violence, extortion, violence against women and children, and political clashes have increased, further aggravating public insecurity .

These statements were made in a political proposal and report presented at the CPB's two-day central committee meeting held at the party's central office, Mukti Bhaban, in Purana Paltan, Dhaka, on Thursday. CPB President Kazi Sajjad Zahir Chandan presided over the meeting, while party General Secretary Abdullah Kafi Ratan presented the report on the country's current political situation .

The political report alleged that the ruling BNP government is taking one anti-national and anti-public interest step after another. The CPB claimed that through these activities, the anti-people character of the government is being increasingly exposed.

The report said the BNP's 31-point state reform programme and election manifesto contained no commitment to sell or transfer state-owned assets to private owners. Yet, the government has taken initiatives to hand over 44 industrial units under five state-owned corporations in the steel, textile, chemical, sugar, food and jute sectors to the private sector.

The CPB report also alleged that the opposition alliance in parliament is playing the role of a collaborator in the government's anti-national activities. It also claimed that anti-liberation forces are continuously attacking the history and heritage of the Liberation War.

The meeting said both the interim government and the current government had promised state reforms after the July mass uprising. However, in reality, public expectations have not been met. Party leaders claimed that although multiple reform commissions were formed in various sectors, including constitutional, administrative, judicial, electoral, labour, women and anti-corruption, no qualitative change has been brought about in the governance system.

The CPB leaders said the aspiration to establish the right to life, which had emerged in post-July uprising Bangladesh achieved through immense sacrifice, has failed. They also commented that the deterioration of the law and order situation has increased the sense of insecurity among ordinary people.

Speaking at the meeting were CPB Presidium members Mujahidul Islam Selim, Rafiquzzaman Layek, S A Rashid, Ragib Ahsan Munna, Jolly Talukdar, Aminul Farid, and central committee members Mohammad Shah Alam, Ruhin Hossain Prince, Mihir Ghosh, Lakshmi Chakrabarty, Aniruddha Das Anjan, Professor M M Akash, Mrinal Chowdhury, Dibyalok Singha, among other central leaders .