There is this variant of political programs that exist only in so far one can bandy it about, raging, fulminating as if the program itself were sufficient to move hearts and mind. So it is, that the BNP has long launched the anti-government program that never seems to come about. The date of the program seems to have gotten pushed back so that even the proposed date to discuss the nation-wide program, itself, takes up ink and copy.
This hand-wringing waiting game has just one cause: no leader within the BNP is ready to confront the argument that any mass protest is likely to result in strikes–hartals–with subsequent adverse economic consequences. During a trying time, when Bangladesh’s economics is fragile, strangling her politics with a strong willed fist is likely to end up with perverse public results.