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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54211183160171403082012-01-29T04:56:59.692+06:00Pro Reforms GroupPro Reforms Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632759279313901421noreply@blogger.comBlogger261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421118316017140308.post-84501841450222082832007-07-18T23:43:00.000+06:002007-07-18T23:54:58.756+06:00Donations vs Nomination Business

By Adnan AnwarDonations, by definition:1. The act of giving or bestowing; a grant.2. That which is given as a present; that which is transferred to another gratuitously; a gift.3. (Legal definition) The act or contract by which a person voluntarily transfers the title to a thing of which he is the owner, from himself to another, without any consideration, as a free gift. --Bouvier.The basic

Pro Reforms Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632759279313901421noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421118316017140308.post-85249381964567092962007-07-12T15:44:00.000+06:002007-07-12T15:46:15.485+06:00Bangladesh Emergency Six Months On - BBC

By John Sudworth, BBC News, DhakaSix months after widespread rioting forced the cancellation of January's general election, Bangladesh remains under a state of emergency. And six months on there are many people who may feel less kindly disposed towards the philanthropic general. A series of military raids have seen dozens of senior politicians, many of them former cabinet ministers and household

Pro Reforms Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632759279313901421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421118316017140308.post-83876017925010225602007-07-11T03:01:00.000+06:002007-07-11T14:56:22.913+06:00Army chief feels need to review the Constitution

Army chief Gen Moeen U Ahmed yesterday said the constitution should be reviewed through a "constitution commission" for preparing new laws and mechanisms to ensure accountability and effective governance. ...more

Pro Reforms Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632759279313901421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421118316017140308.post-21822837784351794012007-07-11T00:56:00.000+06:002007-07-11T02:07:21.683+06:00The vortex of lies and denial

Today, the nation is caught in a vortex of lies and denial. But what surprises and angers us most is that none of the leaders has ever apologized for the wholesale plundering of national wealth by his/her party men! ...more

Pro Reforms Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632759279313901421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421118316017140308.post-5584209741428123012007-07-10T01:00:00.000+06:002007-07-10T01:01:15.299+06:00Roadmap for polls Sunday

The Election Commission (EC) on Sunday will announce a tentative date for holding the stalled ninth parliamentary elections and declare the roadmap to the polls in which the date for completing the voter list with photographs would be mentioned.Sources said the chief election commissioner (CEC) on Sunday would make the roadmap public in a press conference at the EC Secretariat. more

Pro Reforms Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632759279313901421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421118316017140308.post-36967187664903100442007-07-08T00:53:00.000+06:002007-07-11T00:20:34.137+06:00Trouble at the grassroots

Moazzem HossainIn recent weeks and months, the nation has been witnessing a reform fervour going through the minds of our politicians. This got further momentum immediately after the announcement made by Professor Yunus that he changed his mind with regard to running for politics. Presently, the old political forces are back in the ring again with proposals and counter-proposals of party reforms

Pro Reforms Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632759279313901421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421118316017140308.post-31235384843751977642007-07-08T00:42:00.000+06:002007-07-11T02:08:43.571+06:00Democracy without a support structure is unsustainable

Many complex factors -- such as rampant corruption and the undemocratic behaviour of politicians -- are responsible for the events leading to that fateful day on January 11 and they ought to be thoroughly analysed and clearly understood. However, another factor behind the collapse of the system appears to be that it lacked the necessary support structure for the democratic edifice created at the

Pro Reforms Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632759279313901421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421118316017140308.post-79119046436773494972007-07-07T23:48:00.000+06:002007-07-08T00:59:42.968+06:00Let the nation not forget!

Let the nation not forget that both the ladies have sided with Jamat at one time or the other. In their hunger for power both have sided with anti-liberation forces. Both have betrayed the nation.

Pro Reforms Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632759279313901421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421118316017140308.post-38057318060769056572007-07-07T16:12:00.001+06:002007-07-11T02:12:38.015+06:00Bangladesh: Country Prepares for Political Reforms

Guest Columnist Dr. Anand Kumar writes at the South Asia Analysis Group site:The international and domestic pressure has made the caretaker government adopt a less hawkish approach to the reform agenda. But it has not given up. The government is trying to give a legal basis for reforms within political parties. This will create an infrastructure which will help democracy within the political

Pro Reforms Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632759279313901421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421118316017140308.post-53515132993058528212007-07-07T15:54:00.000+06:002007-07-11T02:15:44.484+06:00Meaningless Political Reforms

Mustaq Ahmed writes from Bluffton, Ohio, USA:There are fundamental issues of democratic pricipals missing from the current political reform debate in Bangladesh. No democracy can function unless the political parties put on their agenda the interst of Bangladesh first. This message is getting lost in the current debate over leadership. ...more

Pro Reforms Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632759279313901421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421118316017140308.post-39377154410547351722007-07-07T00:20:00.000+06:002007-07-11T02:18:53.984+06:00National Security Council

THE initiative to form a National Security Council (NSC) as has been stated by the Law and Information Adviser on the other day will be welcomed by the people. This is for the reason that such councils are more the rule than exceptions in many otherwise democratically governed countries. ...more

Pro Reforms Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632759279313901421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421118316017140308.post-54077231724541503912007-07-06T16:21:00.000+06:002007-07-11T02:22:17.165+06:00Reforms - What & When

All the democratic institutions have been deliberately destroyed in the last 15 years that the two major parties have been in power. The three pillars of state: The Legislature, the Executive and the Judiciary have been used and abused repeatedly in the name of democracy. Those who actively participated in raping these sacrosanct institutions are today talking about reforms? ...more

Pro Reforms Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632759279313901421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421118316017140308.post-42716469045707120652007-07-06T15:50:00.000+06:002007-07-11T02:25:25.869+06:00People are not in a hurry

Brigadier General (Retd) Syed ABM Ashrafuzzaman's writes in his column:These days everybody is talking about how to ensure a level playing field for all the political parties and their candidates in the next parliamentary election, whenever it is held. If an election is a game, only a level playing field cannot ensure fairness and success of it. To make it a meaningful and successful game the

Pro Reforms Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632759279313901421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421118316017140308.post-41181224315418661762007-07-06T13:47:00.000+06:002007-07-08T00:59:42.970+06:00Abdul Jalil quits Awami League

In a statement read out by Rehana, her husband criticised Hasina for her "authoritarian leadership". He did not elaborate. Analysts said Jalil's decision dealt a further blow to Hasina,already reeling from news that several former loyalists includingsome party presidium members were demanding drastic party reformsapparently aimed at ousting her from the top job. Jalil was arrestedby army-led

Pro Reforms Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632759279313901421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421118316017140308.post-76296738666272006672007-07-06T13:03:00.000+06:002007-07-08T00:59:42.970+06:00Army-backed Reforms Imperil Democracy

By Farid AhmedAn army-backed plan to marginalise the country's main political parties and their leaders may result in serious damage to the democratic fabric of the country, say observers. After failing to send two long-serving former prime ministers into exile the military-backed interim government has now set in motion plans to divide their parties by encouraging internal dissensions. A group

Pro Reforms Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632759279313901421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421118316017140308.post-20364800793775026812007-07-06T11:54:00.000+06:002007-07-08T00:59:42.970+06:00Political future of Bangladesh in abeyance

The writer is Research Officer, IPCSThe last six months have seen a complete transformation of politics in Bangladesh. The fall from grace of Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia, engineered by the military-backed caretaker government (CG), has created a leadership vacuum in the Awami League and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) respectively with no prominent second-rung leaders to take up the reins.It

Pro Reforms Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632759279313901421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421118316017140308.post-4957787072188747622007-07-03T19:02:00.000+06:002007-07-08T00:59:42.970+06:00Awami League presidium member Tofail puts forward his reform proposal

Another presidium member of Awami League (AL), this time in Tofail Ahmed, has made public his reform proposals.Addressing a press conference at his Banani residence, Tofail once a firebrand student leader, said currently the political parties are at a crossroads and there is no alternative but to carry out reforms.Like his presidium colleague, Tofail's proposals include the one that says no one

Pro Reforms Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632759279313901421noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421118316017140308.post-34288713235493887952007-07-02T14:17:00.000+06:002007-07-06T13:51:30.667+06:00Lifting of Ban on Indoor Politics

By Adnan AnwarThe ban on indoor politics should only be lifted after promulgating a Political Parties Act for the registration and conduct of a party in a democratic society. The ordinance should clearly include a framework on what should be incorporated in the constitution of the parties.It is imperative that the regulation should also safeguard from any single individual attaining absolute

Pro Reforms Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632759279313901421noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421118316017140308.post-80404811689823594452007-07-01T19:09:00.000+06:002007-07-05T20:17:55.311+06:00Need Separate Laws For the Political Parties

Written & Posted by: Feroz M. Hassan founding member of Bikolpo Dhara Bangladesh. He is ex-Secretary General of FEMA.It’s now time to have a formal legal framework for establishing Political Parties as legal entities. This law should define the rights and privileges of the political parties. In a representative democracy well-organized and accountable political parties are essential.Introduction:

Pro Reforms Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632759279313901421noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421118316017140308.post-3313564256297759992007-06-27T17:45:00.000+06:002007-07-08T00:59:42.971+06:00BNP 15-pt Reform proposal

Pro-form BNP leaders led by party Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan yesterday announced their 15-point reform proposal for the party. Following is the full text of the proposal:1. The changes that are to be brought in the existing party structure:a. There are provisions for village councils and village executive committees in Article 1 of Section 6 (a). To be added here: Formation of 31-

Pro Reforms Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632759279313901421noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421118316017140308.post-59646011931745918362007-06-16T13:51:00.000+06:002007-07-08T00:59:42.971+06:00Leadership of Hasina, Khaleda hangs in balance: Move to free AL, BNP from dynastic control

As Published in theBy Shahidul IslamLeaders of the BNP and the Awami League are busy preparing separate roadmap for democratic reforms in their respective parties with a view to freeing the two major political parties from autocratic dynastic control and corruption. Insiders yesterday said senior leaders, who were involved in preparing the documents of the roadmap in both the parties, were ready

Pro Reforms Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632759279313901421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421118316017140308.post-59402997063824599962007-06-16T13:04:00.000+06:002007-07-08T00:59:42.971+06:00Party symbols should not be allowed in the ballot papers

In the next election the Ballot papers should not have party symbols instead have candidate photo and name. Now that we are going to have new voters list with photo and every eligible voter will get ID cards with photo, there is no need to have party symbols in the balloting paper. By making the necessary change in the election laws parties will be unable to put up rubbish candidates (even Kola

Pro Reforms Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632759279313901421noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421118316017140308.post-30018220383326374452007-06-13T20:17:00.000+06:002007-06-14T14:21:44.136+06:00Pro Reforms Group Programs

Pro Reforms Group (“Shongskar er Pokkhe Amra”) has been established by a group of activists seeking political reforms both within and outside the parties through non partisan programs. Pro Reforms Group is an independent platform and dose not belong to any particular political party. Mr. Feroz M. Hassan, Founding Secretary General of FEMA, is the Chief Coordinator of the Pro Reforms Group.In

Pro Reforms Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632759279313901421noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421118316017140308.post-21401010192019309932007-06-09T18:53:00.000+06:002007-06-14T14:21:44.137+06:00Democracy should be the only way to Power

Political parties in a democratic system should not only preach democracy but also practice the same in a transparent and clean manner. The founders of Bikolpo Dhara (now LDP) have always propagated clean politics and projected their leader as “Rajnitir Porichonno Purush” translated “the Clean Man of Politics”. Surely, these leaders are aware that the only way to replace an elected government is

Pro Reforms Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632759279313901421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421118316017140308.post-7901791349446838702007-06-08T17:44:00.000+06:002007-06-09T18:59:44.065+06:00LDP Leaders Talk Democratic Act Autocratic

Bilkopo Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) was formed to give to the people an alternative. They propagated clean leadership and democratic behaviour and stood firm in their fight against corruption and militancy. For over two years, the party fought it out and sustained in the most difficult of times. This was possible because the founders had a few good men believing in them and the ideals that they said

Pro Reforms Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09632759279313901421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421118316017140308.post-72473648893150757772007-06-07T19:16:00.000+06:002007-06-14T14:21:44.137+06:00Party Should Undertake Urgenty Needed Reforms

Statement Issued by Feroz M. Hassan,Founder member of Bikolpo Dhara BangladeshJt. Secretary General National Executive CommitteeToday the nation is united in its demand for political reforms, for establishment of democracy within the parties and to get rid of the autocratic leadership that has dominated politics for so long.In spite of the current scenario, the Publicity Secretary of the National

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