Even before it took office, the interim government’s primary task has always been to reform the myriad national institutions which have been rendered corrupt and unreliable through more than a decade of misrule.
Bangladesh is soon going to enter the third month of the interim government being in office, and while the past two months have seen some positive changes in our administrative make-up as some of our nation’s brightest, most capable minds have been entrusted in carrying out the promised reforms, in the here and now, there is still a lot of work to be done to get Bangladesh back on track.
To that end, there are perhaps few issues as pressing as the continued lack of any law and order in the country. While Bangladesh is far from the days of unrest we observed immediately after the fall of the Awami League government, there is still a distinct void left in our law enforcement which has visibly empowered criminals and fringe groups from making their presence be known leading to deaths and harassment of women and minority groups.
The economy has been in a state of free fall for more than two years now -- with dwindling foreign reserves, a banking sector which has been hemorrhaging uncontrollably, and an inhospitable business climate, our finance and commerce administrations need to ensure that these problems can be solved within a reasonable amount of time.
We have absolutely no hesitation that the Chief Adviser and his panel of experts are just what Bangladesh needs at the moment to spring back, and while presenting Bangladesh’s newfound liberation at the world stage is necessary to dispel a lot of the noise surrounding it, the real work begins now.
It’s time for our leaders to roll up their sleeves.
