Meritorious people needed in politics

Somewhere we must start and improve the quality of the country’s politics. And for this there is no alternative to increased participation of quality people in politics

When the newly appointed Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said that more and more meritorious people should join politics, he talked what is particularly important for improving the nature of Bangladesh’s politics. Everywhere, rarely this area of human activity gets talented and thoroughly honest people. When it really gets such people, it shines. But politics in general is a business of the mediocre, all over the world. People of qualities, academic or otherwise, have a general tendency to shun politics because, as a general rule, a politician has to tell a lie and choose a path that is usually not liked by the commonly accepted norms of morality, to win over people. 
Participation of a person with strong moral sense and integrity often becomes an uneasy thing for the fellow corrupt politicians. That is why politics is always dominated by the mediocre people. However,  even if participation of the mediocrity could be ensured in Bangladesh, its politics could have been long salvaged from its present morass. In Bangladesh politics has often been a dirty game with absence of any fairness in conducting crucial matters such as election, governance, service delivery to people, etc. Political parties here often take resort to hooliganism for winning advantage.       
  Against this backdrop, communications and bridges minister’s words for the necessity of participation of meritorious people are indeed good to listen to. His words would have been really encouraging if he would have come up with a plan as to how his party is going to recruit meritorious people from now on, and how best it could reward the persons based on merit rather than other considerations such as money or muscle power. 
Yet Obaidul Quader’s words are positive because somewhere we must start and improve the quality of the country’s politics. And for this there is no alternative to increased participation of quality people in politics. The senior leaders of all the major parties should realize that it is upon them the responsibility to create an environment where meritorious and good people feel increasingly encouraged to take up politics as their profession.
If politics of Bangladesh wants to save itself, it must make rooms for the presence of honest, meritorious and vibrant people, discouraging those who are dishonest, dull-headed and lethargic.

 

Meritorious people needed in politics

Somewhere we must start and improve the quality of the countrys politics. And for this there is no alternative to increased participation of quality people in politics

When the newly appointed Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said that more and more meritorious people should join politics, he talked what is particularly important for improving the nature of Bangladeshs politics. Everywhere, rarely this area of human activity gets talented and thoroughly honest people. When it really gets such people, it shines. But politics in general is a business of the mediocre, all over the world. People of qualities, academic or otherwise, have a general tendency to shun politics because, as a general rule, a politician has to tell a lie and choose a path that is usually not liked by the commonly accepted norms of morality, to win over people. Participation of a person with strong moral sense and integrity often becomes an uneasy thing for the fellow corrupt politicians. That is why politics is always dominated by the mediocre people. However, even if participation of the mediocrity could be ensured in Bangladesh, its politics could have been long salvaged from its present morass. In Bangladesh politics has often been a dirty game with absence of any fairness in conducting crucial matters such as election, governance, service delivery to people, etc. Political parties here often take resort to hooliganism for winning advantage. Against this backdrop, communications and bridges ministers words for the necessity of participation of meritorious people are indeed good to listen to. His words would have been really encouraging if he would have come up with a plan as to how his party is going to recruit meritorious people from now on, and how best it could reward the persons based on merit rather than other considerations such as money or muscle power. Yet Obaidul Quaders words are positive because somewhere we must start and improve the quality of the countrys politics. And for this there is no alternative to increased participation of quality people in politics. The senior leaders of all the major parties should realize that it is upon them the responsibility to create an environment where meritorious and good people feel increasingly encouraged to take up politics as their profession. If politics of Bangladesh wants to save itself, it must make rooms for the presence of honest, meritorious and vibrant people, discouraging those who are dishonest, dull-headed and lethargic.