In its simplest form, humility means being modest and respectuful. This is importnat for leaders. Because if a leader can not respect others, he will not get respect from others in the long run. Being humble also means , some one is not egoist or arrogant.
If we review Tarique Rahman's talk, speech and newspaper reports on his activities, we never found anything that shows his disrespect for any one, any leader from other parties. I think, he has got this quality from his family. His mother also never shows disrespect to any one by attacking anyone personally in her speech.
I am not an expert of leadership, just learning and trying to understand leadership.But I know there are some ways to evaluate who is leader or not . One such way is the words one uses. Listening to her small interview (almost 13 min) with www.bdnews24.com,TV I can say Saima Hussain Putul would be much better leader and run the country better than her mother Hasina and brother Joy if even she is given responsibilities now though she is lacking experience. But her understanding of work ethics, success principle evident from her choice of words lure me to make such conclusion.. She never used the world Problem, rather used the word challenge. This is a leadership word. She was also using the word collaboration, cooperation and partnership etc. From her tone, it seems that she knows the importance and meaning of these words in making things happen.
We may like it or not, family dynasty will continue in Bangladeshi politics. But for how long? I think, another 10-15 years, at best 20 years.
There is no competitor for Tarique Rahman in BNP. So there is no scope to make a comparison. His strength and weakness as a leader can be evaluated. May be some time later. But there are many people in AL. The two most prominent candidates for the top positions in AL are Tulip Siddique and Sajob Wajed Joy. So they can be evaluated. Who would be better Leader for AL and Bangladesh between these two young people?
I would say, Tulip Siddiq. She has already proved her leadership by being councillor of a city council in London. It is not easy to get nomination for councillor post from a party, is not that easy in developed world Like England. None can buy nomination all on a sudden. Some one needs to show his/her commitment and skill persistently and consistently. Then one gets nomination. To win people’s support is another revealation of her leadership. It may sound rude, but reality is that it is much more difficult to become councillor of a city in metropolitan area in a developed country than to get nomination and get elected as MP in Bangladesh. So Tulip already has proved that she is a leader. She could maintain her position acceptably in Helmet tower city council election not involving in mud slinging . This shows her maturity as a leader.
But, is there any such proof for Joy that he is a leader? Did he become even class captain any time, any where? I have no information. I also never met Joy. I know all about him from his talk and interview in media.
Many a times he was aksed about joining Bangladeshi politics. He didn’t show any commitment for Bangladeshi politics. He always pretended to be great person and showed negligence for Bangladeshi politics. From his interview with BBC just after making him party member in Rangupur district shows that pretention , lack of commitment and gratitude in him though his was saying of being grateful.
He wanted to say that he has masters degree and earn livelihood. So he doesn’t need to involve in corruption. But we know people mostly engage in corruption for greed, not for need. All of our corrupt BCS cadres have masters degree and they earn their livelihood. Does it prevent them from corruption?
Trying to portay himself innocent referring to his master degree reveal his poor quality of thinking and understanding as a person. People with such poor quality can never be a leader, let alone a good or great leader. If he gets the top position of AL, it would be a disaster for AL and Bangladesh.
We also saw that he didn’t come to bury his father. This shows his poor relationship with his father along with his weakness in interpersonal relationship.
His article just before the last election where he mentioned 500% times growth of Burqa(Which was later removed being harsely criticized) and other lies also reveals how detrimental leader he will be for AL and Bangladesh.
But who are we to decide who will be leader of AL? Is there any say for the supporters and well wisher of AL ? Or only Hasina has a say and she is the only and one to have a say?
Recently , Sheikh Fazlul karim Selim threatened BNP that they would be happy if BNP resign and they would make Ershad household(গৃহপালিত )opposition leader in the parliament during budget lecture. See here
In response to this lecture of Selim, Some leaders of that party reacted. Most funny reaction was from Obaidul Quader. He said that that lecture by Selim was Political lecture(www.sheershanews.com) If this is political lecture, then which one is not ? Is there any scope for a lecture by a politician to be other than political?. Every word uttered by a politician in political forum is political. What does Quader mean by political? Is he suffering from shortage of vocabulary? Or he doesn't understand politics yet?
Not only Quader but also Suranjit Babu also said , BNP is opposing 15th amendment of consitution for political reason. BNP is political party. For what ever reason they opposes anything is for political reason. Is there any scope for their opposition to be non political? Is there any scope or did you expect that they would oppose for romantic reason?
O Allah send us politicians who have clear understanding of politics.
