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Originally Posted by Fazal
We talk often about the people... who are the people here? The people in Gulshan and Banani, Dhanmondi, Cantonment and even Uttara, the People of Dhaka? Or the whole nation? "Election' or 'No Election' How we are so sure that we know what the whole nation wants? Who gave us that right to mis-represnt them and use 'the people' so often without any stat to backup?
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Very well said, Fazal Bhai,
we often hear someone coming along and saying "the people support torturing Tasneem Khalil", "the people would gladly have military rule", "everyones happy back home", more often than not it is a few elitists who think they have the authority/mandate to speak on behalf of the entire nation.
I am not talking about supporters of this torture case only, I also mean BNP/BAL apologists who used such rhetoric in the past; "desh bashira hortal chaye" etc.