Dhaka, Oct. 1 -- -Mainul Hosein

It is unnecessary to assure the press if the press is free. The other day the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina "elected" under her own system said the press is free to criticise her.

We, in this paper, avoid scrupulously criticising her personally. We no doubt criticise the wrong policies of the government believing those policies are presented by bureaucrats under the blueprint supplied by others.

The press or the people have no importance to the government.

It is not incumbent on the government to respect the law or even the Constitution for the simple reason of a constitutional change made unilaterally forging free election impossible and such a system is not found anywhere under parliamentary system of ...