Dhaka, May 3 -- If this government can tell proudly of economic development as a great success and, assuming that its claim is true, then it has to be also admitted that under a competent, honest and less wasteful government, the country would have progressed much faster.

No democratic government would have felt the necessity of wasting huge amount of public money in image building and enjoying lavish lifestyle. No expense is considered too high by the government for distorting the political history to justify where we are now: the people have no rights and the government has all the power.

There is no denying the fact that our people all along struggled to enjoy the basic rights as protected under democracy. The people did not seek a pie...