The interim government has to focus on 5 issues

The Interim Government Has to Focus on 5 Issues

Mir Abdul Alim

The interim government should first look at 5 issues:

1. Rapid improvement of law and order.
2. Strengthening the economy.
3. Stop bribery and corruption.
4. Preventing single-party power means bringing corruption-free honest people from all parties to state power.
5. Ensuring unadulterated food.

I am starting with the last one. The body of the people of the country is rotting by eating adulterated and poisonous food. People are dying of disease. If people die, who will you do politics with? Therefore, adulteration must be prevented first. This is very easy to do. If there is a will, it can be started now. The work can be started now by forming a district-wise anti-adulteration committee with the combination of honest officials and students. Where adulteration of food is found, arrest and imprisonment should be arranged. The interim government should be strict in this regard.

Improving law and order is the need of the hour. The people of the country are not safe. Theft, dacoity, robbery, looting, and arson are happening every day. I think this has not happened since the post-independence period till today. How extortion happened during the corrupt Hasina government. The continuation of raising the prices of everything through the syndicate, which raised the spirits of the common people, is still going on. Somewhere the hands have changed, somewhere else those controllers of Awami League managed everyone and maintained their rule. Improving law and order has become a major challenge of this government.

It has been going on for years. Bank corruption could not be prevented. There has been corruption in development activities. Pillow stories are very popular in the country. Our newspapers often print the news that there has been massive corruption in the health and education sectors.

There has been corruption in various institutions. Hallmark corruption is known to all. Ever imagined the stories that came out of a group called Hallmark? They have grabbed 2668 (two thousand six hundred and sixty-eight) crores i.e. 2.67 billion only from Rupsi Bangla branch of Sonali Bank. And 3607 (Three Thousand Six Hundred Seven) Crore Taka i.e. 3.60 Billion disappeared from the same branch of Sonali Bank through fraud. Banks give and they take. Thieves are thieves like Mastut Bhai. It was a big sham for Sonali Bank, it was also a big disaster for the grand coalition government.

I can't find any reason to think, how the crooks could steal such a huge amount of money from the hard-earned bank deposit in the day-afternoon. Despite this, many such institutions have cheated the deposit money of bank customers in various schemes. Many of them are now residents of Europe and America. Who touches their tickets? And they are very powerful. Even after this, what can I say that the country affected by corruption did not have cancer?

In fact, cancer also has variations. Our country is now affected by various cancers. The country is now in CCU due to the cancer called corruption. Cancer of this country is in chronic stage. The disease will not be cured; The country will die only Allah can save the country. In our depravity, and in our condition, He does not seem to look back upon us at last. As the days go by, the country's cancer of corruption is getting out of control. The common people of the country have become helpless as the state is affected by cancer.

This is the cancer of the country. The original cancer has settled in the body of the people of this country. We are constantly being poisoned. Where is the poison in mango, jam, fish, rice? Every food is now being poisoned. A few days ago, a famous columnist wrote in his writing - 'We are every person; Every time; I drank poison knowingly.' It goes without saying that the food we eat every day is poisoned to some degree. And this poison is pushing us towards death. Only by going to hospitals can you understand how many diseases are now filling the human body. In fact, we are knowingly eating poison. What is the way not to eat? But there is a way. If you don't eat, you may get rid of it; But that is not to be. So I am buying mangoes, jams, fishes and vegetables even knowing that they are poisoned. And I have been swallowing that poisoned food in my family day and night.

Adultery permeates our lives. Oil, spices, salt, flour, sugar, fish, milk, fruits, vegetables, milk powder, keshtel, cosmetics are adulterated everywhere. Most of the fruit juices and soft drinks are made of synthetic chemicals, which are harmful to health. Fruits are first pickled with calcium carbide, then preserved with formalin. Both are harmful to health. Unscrupulous traders use cheap textile grade toxic dyes in various foods including Biryani, Jilapi, Juice, Sweets to enhance the beauty of the food, which is very harmful to the body. Artificial colors in food and preservatives used in juices can cause cancer. Even our life-saving medicines are not 100% free from adulteration. In rice grown for eating, dal is also adulterated. Chromium poison is found in it. By using calcium carbide and ethiophene, there is no fruit that does not ripen, including mangoes, bananas, papayas, pineapples, currants, pomegranates, apples. Again 100/200 m. Gr. Bottled Provit (Ethophane) is marketed to preserve the freshness of vegetables. The use of this type of chemical prolongs the freshness of vegetables - which is one of the reasons for the increase in the price of vegetables in the market. Not just fruits, fish and vegetables – from sweet shops to grocery store staples and fancy cosmetics, there is no chemical-free item.

Meat is also not adulterated. Most of the farm cows are being fed excessive amounts of urea fertilizer and feed soda. It makes the cow fat quickly, but its meat is harmful to the human body. Doctors said that even if there is no immediate reaction after eating these beef, people's liver and kidneys can gradually become inactive. Concerned people complain that although there is an opportunity to conduct lab tests in the country, BSTI has not given importance to the matter of adding formalin to milk, which is one of the ingredients of baby food. Apart from this, as the city corporation does not take into consideration, most of the big and small dairy establishments in the city are freely selling adulterated and toxic food products including milk, rice, flour, pulses, fish and fruits. Some years mobile courts are set up during Ramadan and action is taken against the sellers and producers of adulterated and substandard food products. However, the government has not yet taken any effective measures to save the country from the scourge of poisonous food. Not only the market is selling poisoned food products. Famous hotels, Chinese restaurants, restaurants and fast food vendors are selling such food. And we have been consuming poison knowingly.

No matter how immoral, no matter how toxic, whether people live or die, it does not matter to the profiteers of this country. It is not a matter of their consideration. Fish, fruits, vegetables, the technique of adding formalin to everything to keep it fresh for a long time is really very unethical. Ice is usually added to keep the fish fresh. It has been going on for a long time. Giving ice is not a crime. Since formalin costs less than ice; Just enough! So dishonest traders are giving formalin instead of ice. Since the effectiveness of formalin is high, a few drops of formalin are mixed with ice now. It does not have the ability to catch adulteration. I wonder where the moral standards have fallen! Nowadays, some rogue traders leave some molasses, sugary food on the formalin mixed fish. The fish came and sat on it. Seeing this, the buyer thinks that the fish is free of formalin. In this way they are also inventing tricks to cheat the customers. Shit! What a disaster! How low have we sunk as a nation.

A chemical is a stored harmful substance. which is used for very special purposes subject to the approval of the Government; But its indiscriminate use everywhere now seems to make it as cheap, readily available and usable as salt. And we are eating these chemically mixed food. Disease is also happening. Serious diseases like cancer are taking root in the body. Harmful chemicals used in food, including formalin, have various uses. Field specific it is also useful. So there is no way to completely ban imports. But imports should be strictly controlled. Importers and buyers should be monitored. Strict restrictions should be imposed on the sale and use of formalin or similar chemicals.

There is no alternative to building a corruption-free society for the development of the country. Along with that, it is important to ensure adulterated food to the people of the country. We do not want a disease-ridden country. I want a healthy golden country. I want healthy people. For this there is no substitute for our honesty, devotion, and accountability. We look forward to that day.

Writer: Journalist, Social Researcher, Secretary General - Columnist Forum of Bangladesh.