Autocracy under democratic mask:(part -2) Autocrats always create Frankensteins!

M A Hossain

Every autocrat, for the sake of prolonging their tenure through muscle power would either shake hands with civil military administration, religious bigots or students and youths. This experiment though initially turns to be effective and fruitful but in long run, these element ultimately become the key factor behind the total doom of the authoritarian regimes.

In Bangladesh, very surprisingly, a democratically elected government with landslide victory did unnecessarily accord absolute freehand to the students and youth comrades of their party fronts. Taking fullest and undue advantages of such 'unrestricted' permit of doing and undoing anything, at the very first hour of the tenure of the government the student front comrades went into thuggish lawlessness and hooliganism; starting from molesting and rapping female students in the campuses, murders, extortions, anarchism and what not! Though it seems, the head of these political fronts were unhappy and even annoyed at such severe barbarism ; but in reality, it was unfortunately proven time and again that either the Supreme leader were made captive into the hands of these unruly 'student' gangsters or it were actually happening at the silent green signal from the supreme command.

Though we never prescribe people's autocracy or any other theory replacing a bad democracy or even rotten democracy; or extreme hypocrisy under the disguise of democracy - but witnessing the current scenarios in most of the so-called democratic nations we may start thinking of any alternative.

In India, under the banner of democracy an extreme degree of repression, persecution and even barbarism are continuing on the non Hindu minorities clearly with the patronization and instigation of the Hindutva political monsters. Every other day, Muslims in particular or even Dalits (lower cast Hindus), are being murdered, assaulted, rapped or even burnt alive by the followers of radical 'saffron battalions'. This battalions are unwilling in giving any rights to the religious minorities in India. In their theory - persecution of religious minorities are part of their sacred religious obligations.

In Bangladesh, the student front in particular of the ruling party have already crossed all the limits of audacities towards the nation. The rulers might have though, this Frankenstein is going to protect them from any opposition force, if and when required; but in reality seeing the unruly actions of the ruling party comrades and being aggrieved - real student and youth power have already been waken up against each of wrong doings of the rulers. This particular force played vital role in 1953-language movement 1969- mass revolution, 1971- war of independence and 1990- movement against dictatorship. They will return on the street time and again!

This article also published at:
1.Modern Ghana, Ghana :14April 2018
2.Ghana Nation, Ghana :14April 2018