Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia are two different treasures.
Sheikh Hasina is carrying forward her father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's legacy of national liberation and dream of a golden Bengal. It is the legacy of the struggle for independence from Pakistan, one of the most horrific genocides in South Asia.
Khaleda is the successor to her late husband, General Ziaur Rahman, the first military ruler of Bangladesh, who resumed the process of Pakistanization of her successor General HM Ershad and turned the clock ticking for the country's "unfinished revolution". Declaring Islam the state religion of Bangladesh.
Bangabandhu's 1972 constitution established secularism as the core value of neo-liberalism in Bangladesh. Although the defeated power of 1971 was given legitimacy, Zia and Ershad reversed it and showed the dominance of Islam. The military rulers formed their own party but needed Islamist radical groups like the pro-Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami as allies. Popular leader of the Awami League.
After half a decade of Zia's rule towards the end of the century, Hasina is now presiding over the 'Golden Decade of Development' of Bangladesh. Sheikh Hasina has made a dramatic economic change that has transformed Bangladesh from a 'basket case' (described by Henry Kissinger) to a growing Asian tiger when Zia brought the country to the 'second front of Islamic terrorism' in South Asia. Violent religious extremism associated with Pakistan.
The BBC now describes Hasina as a "good voice" in global efforts to tackle climate change. Its inclusive growth economic model focuses more on human development and equitable distribution and less on pure growth statistics and wealth creation. Zia perpetuated a legacy of widespread corruption in the shadow of which his son Tariq Rahman created a culture of privacy through a leaked cable from the US embassy, blaming him for "political corruption that has had a devastating effect on US national interests." That means democratic stability. The agency and the United States aim for foreign aid.
Under Hasina, Bangladesh's GDP growth has been above 7 percent annually and an estimated 50 million Bangladeshis have been raised in the middle income group. Poverty levels have dropped from 38 percent in 2006 to 24 percent in 2013.
Bangladesh's per capita income has risen to 1,1,602, surpassing neighboring India, and the poverty rate has fallen further to 22.4 percent. Foreign exchange reserves rose to $ 45 billion and GDP stood at $ 324 billion. And from power generation to the construction of roads to the completion of 6 km of rail and road bridges over the Padma, Bangladesh has achieved Hasina's single initiative in building vital infrastructure that encourages industrialization and export-driven manufacturing economy.
The figures signed during Khaleda Zia's tenure were simultaneous bomb blasts in all districts of Bangladesh. People of Hasina era revolve around economic growth. See the big headlines of Khaleda Zia's time: "Cocoon of Terror", "Deadly Cargo", "The Next Islamist Revolution", but Hasina era: "Bangladesh: The Next Asian Bull Case", "Life Begins. Fifty for Bangladesh". "Irresistible Bangladesh" and many more.
The difference between the two legacies is obvious, and the choices made by Bangladeshis over the past decade indicate what most people in the country want.
The close relationship between the state, the deep state, extremist religious groups, a section of big business and a foreign power seeking to use the country for their own strategic gain has failed miserably in the Pakistani model. Despite becoming a nuclear power, Pakistan has remained a failed state since the 1971 war. A brief test of that model during Khaleda's rule in the early part of this century brought disaster to Bangladesh with Islamic terrorism, which had its initial basis in Khaleda's first term in the 1990s.
Hasina, who has prioritized economic and human development since returning to power in January 2009, has had to wage an all-out campaign to eradicate these hydra-head terrorist groups, which have grown disproportionately even after splitting into a radical group. . Status. In response, he realized that the fight to eradicate Islamic terrorism and the connection between some Indian insurgent groups and a section of Bangladesh's security forces (again following the Pakistani model) was as important as achieving and preparing for development goals. Countries dealing with the adverse effects of climate change. When law and order is disrupted and terrorism driven by religious insanity takes root, the best long-term perspective can be lost.
Hasina's work in achieving her development goals has not been hampered only by the proliferation of terrorist groups.
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