Information highway has integrated the world in such a way that economy and business
have become borderless. Existing governance skills and knowledge becomes absolete
quickly, specially in the absence of e-governance. For economic development and to
maintain competitive edge with the global changes, governance reform including e-
governances should be the top priority to design the future of Bangladesh.
5. Election 2007: Will people’s aspiration come true? The 9th parliamentary election
may be an opportune moment which the citizens may skillfully utilize towards
good governance by ensuring that honest, apt and patriotic people gets the
leadership to overcome governance crisis. Citizens are not merely the passive
voters; they are also active citizens and above all “the owner of the country”.
They don’t want “democracy for the party,” They don’t want “government for the
party”. But they want “government of the people, by the people and for the
people”.
Although the people are electing representative for the parliament, one can
examine the kind of political system in which the MPs are elected & operating
inside & outside the parliament. One thing we have to remember, our elected
representative are operating in state machinery inherited from the British &
Pakistani Colonial rulers. For good governance & rule of law we have to give
serious thought to establish democratic institution & also strengthening the
existing weak institutions which are gradually failing to act as a backbone of a
democratic society. Reforms are required that would help uninterrupted economic
growth & development – development which will meet the needs of common
people. The common people do not want to hear assurances of false hopes any
more; they want to get the benefit of democracy & fruit of good governance.
Today they want skills, knowledge and expertise of their leaders. They want to
have special breed of people who can significantly change their lives and set them
up on a footing so that they can compete with people from any other part of the
world.
The current speed of the problem solving approaches and the attitude of the
political leadership to address good governance issue are hopeless. With the
increasing rate of the governance crisis & problems arising thereto, we have to
decide to solve national issues keeping national interest above party interest &
thus remove the road block to the development of a potential country like
Bangladesh. Because as the owner of the country the citizens of Bangladesh
deserve the fruit of democracy & has the right to have a good quality life in a
peoples republic in a true sense.