This has been a holiday for me, so I have taken this opportunity to make my first post in 'topics 192'. As a matter of fact, there is a unique situation persisting in Bangladesh. Bangladesh is a country known for political unrests. Such a situation is going on to meet the demand of former opposition party. Bangladesh is a democracy. We have ruling parties and opposition parties. But we also have a third party consists of eminent, non-partisan citizens. This third party is given power to run the country before election. Such kind of government is called Caretaker Government. The task of this government is to run country for three months and conduct the election to elect the next government. This is a unique type of governance, you will only find in Bangladesh. The main objective of this caretaker government is to ensure free, fair election in Bangladesh.
This is the time, when such a caretaker government is in power. We also have an autonomous election commission, which takes care of all the election. Now, the some leading political parties are showing demonstration against the election, and asking the caretaker government to force the election commissioner to step down from his post.
surrounded by the police and people, the protesters are dancing with joy in one of the main roads of DhakaThat is why, we are having holidays. Yeah sounds incredible. But, this is how it works in Bangladesh. The political parties have deployed road blockades. The capital city Dhaka is isolated from the whole country. In such situation classes of universities are canceled. The supporters of political parties come out at roads, show demonstration. The transports are not allowed to ply in the road. The crowded roads of Dhaka come into the possession of people. Although this causes problems for business houses and government, but if you are a student or a tourist, who has no responsibility to be present at office in such time, you might come out at road, have a wonderful walk under the sun in this winter season, and enjoy the demonstration of party supporters.
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Hello Tanvir and welcome.
This is very interesting, I have never heard of a caretaker government . How often do you have elections and how are people chosen for the caretaker roles?
Thanks Jane for your interest.
well its a wonderful concept, if proper people are placed in government. Usually well-respected non-partisan people are selected. This one is a brilliant idea conceived by our politicians to held free fair election, as the political parties do not trust each other, and they don't put the confidence on elected government to held election. Then the government in power might manipulate the election result to come again into power.
The head of the caretaker government is chosen from the retired judges of supreme court. He is called the "chief adviser of caretaker government". He selects other advisers who take charge of different ministries for this short time. The advisers are chosen in such manner that no dispute arises about them. This caretaker government runs the country for three months.
We have election in every five years.
Interesting indeed. Is there a mechanism ensuring that the caretakers don't just stay on indefinitely?
of course, though many people think that the country is better off with caretaker government, as the chosen caretaker govt. member are not corrupted, as the political leaders are, it is quite impossible for caretaker govt. to hold power for indefinite time, as political parties will take them down anyway after the period is over. Political parties will do anything to come back to power.
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