Politics of the ‘apolitical’
Nurul Kabir
That the crude power struggle – power struggle devoid of democratic ideology and without a set of civilised rules of the game – between the two rival political camps pushed the country to an abnormal political situation inviting a state of emergency, and that the people at large are still not unhappy with the incumbents, both overt and covert, in spite of losing sine die the universally acknowledged fundamental rights of citizens are home truths.
The people’s endorsement of emergency is rather evident in their silence about a group of apparently apolitical people taking over state power and making decisions of national importance without having any direct electoral mandate. The people, however, could hardly be blamed for such a ‘non-modern’ silence in these modern times, where the affairs of the state are supposed to be managed by elected representatives under a ‘social contract’ – the clauses of which are laid down in the constitution of a democratic republic. More......
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