Here is my 10 point proposal that will make politicians/government officials less desperate to stick to power and make the opposition less greedy to return to power. Poeple with mostly ideological interst and those who want to serve and make a change will only be interested in taking the job of governing Bangladesh.
1. No government housing ( No more minto road) for ministers, state and deputy ministers and advisers. ( Rent the Minto road houses to interntional hotel compaies, guest house operators. ).
2. No flag car and no governmnet provded transport except Prime minister, Chief Justice, Opposition leader, speaker.
3. Mandating the ministers and speakers to use public transport for travelling between Dhaka and constituency.
4. Bar the government and elected officials from travelling to foeign lands for treatment except the conditions which are absolutely not treatable in Bangladesh.
5. Put a term limitof on the position of prime Minister. My take on it is to make it a max of two.
6. Make it a rule, no family member of a prime minister can replace him/her. May need to wait at least one to two term before doing so. Same rule should apply for MPs, no relative/family member can contest from the same constituency for at least two terms.
7. Prime Minster and opposition leader must have a monthly open press conferece that would be telecast live.
8. There must be pre election and midterm debates directly between the prime minister and the oppisition leader.
9. There would be only one official residence cum office for prime minister. Similar accomodation/office must also be arranged for the leader of opposition. There must not be any government supply for food service, cook in these accomodations and any other government installations. All officials, starting from prime minister will have to do/arrange their own grocery shopping and cooking. They may hire cooks on their own, but not through government.
10. All the circuit houses, Dak banglows, governments rest houses must cease to exist. These all should be sold/rented to hotel operators. Officials, politicians using these accomodation may later get reimbursed from specific departments provided the trips non-political public interest have been justified.
In the Middle of Nowhere 
April 30, 2006 at 1:13 pm
rumi bhai, 10 tofa daabi korar moto haate ato shomoi ki bhabe paan? Anyway, some comments:
5. I like your term limits idea. Maybe we can bribe/convince an MP to introduce that as a Bill in Parliament. Any takers?
4. Actually another net benefit of barring medical treatment abroad, or forcing treatment at home, is to allow government officials to die natural deaths, therby cleansing the system a little at a time. I like this one.
6. I think this will be hard to enforce, and you are taking away the right of a citizen to pursue elected office. However there are other measures for reducing nepotism, none of which will work in Bangladesh just yet. How about releasing tax returns for all government officials, and for high ranking party officials such as the PM’s children? How about arming the Auditor General’s office with tanks and security forces so they can go about doing their work without threat to their lives?
7,8: Are you sure you want to watch this, they would have nothing interesting to say.
9. As for getting rid of the cooks, I don’t think that will work. Food service is essential, and I really think don’t want to run into a Hasina or Khaleda at the butcher store, fighting over the last leg of lamb.
10. This prime real estate will end up being turned over to Tariq Zia’s friends for condo and shopping mall development. At least now they are still technically owned by “the people”, and afford some of the only greenery left in Dhaka. Be careful what you ask for.
April 30, 2006 at 9:09 pm
Yes rafiq bhai, those real estate issues were thought of before launching this ‘ dos dofa dabi’ 🙂 .
Governmnet housings will only be leased ( Not sold) with very stringent preconditions not allowing any change in structure in any form or any addition.
The grocery shopping and cooking idea came up to have our leadership remain informed about market trend.
Yes, one of the reason of healthcare clause is an early flushing of current generation of politicians. Another clause using public transport will also serve similar purpose considering unsafe highway system in BD.
In fact until our politicians start leading a life the general people do, they will never be motivated to change the system.
May 12, 2006 at 7:57 pm
You can make as much rules and laws as you want. But do you think anyone is going to follow them? How many of existing laws are followed by the politicians and ruling class today?
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