Open AccessBangladesh: An Umpired Democracy
Author(s) -
Abul Kalam Azad
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of social and development sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2221-1152
DOI - 10.22610/jsds.v3i6.704
Subject(s) - interim , democracy , independence (probability theory) , government (linguistics) , politics , political economy , political science , product (mathematics) , power (physics) , productive forces , economic system , development economics , public administration , economics , law , mathematics , linguistics , statistics , philosophy , geometry , physics , quantum mechanics
This paper reveals that there has been a continuous political confrontation between two archrival political forces in Bangladesh since independence in 1971. In the course of the confrontation, the country has seemingly been divided into two forces: BAL forces and anti-BAL forces. The democratic development in this country since 1991 is a by-product of this confrontation. In 1991, because of the continued mistrust between the two confronting forces, a unique system of interim government (non-party caretaker government) was produced that kept working as a catalyst of power transfer in a democratic way from one government to another till 2008 election from 1991.