There is probably no section of people in Bangladesh that does not crave for sustaining normalcy in the country except for some highly motivated political quarters in the opposition. Even among many members of the opposition BNP and fanatical Islamist forces, there is a yearning for sustaining normal life but their leaders keep on forcing them to maintain a militant stance. The majority of the workers and leaders of the BNP and the Islamist forces probably realise the futility of continuing their mindless violence specially after their past foiled mass upsurge programs . The battering they got while the intended outcome from these events were frustrated were approved by nearly all sensible quarters in the country that matter and upheld without exception by the international community.

Perhaps, the rank and file of these two political forces are coming round to realising that the launching of any agitational movement-which would surely have very adverse repercussions on the country’s economic and social conditions-and, therefore, unlikely to find favour among the general people, could complete their alienation. Taking into consideration all of these factors, it would be only befitting and level-headed reaction on their part to seek redress of their grievances within the bounds of the constitution and election laws that would spare the country the economic damages of a violent upheaval.

The crackdown on ultra religious forces and on a lesser scale time and again against BNP have been at least privately greeted with a sense of great relief by the preponderant number of people in the country as they earlier were apprehensive that Bangladesh could be thrown into an abyss from violence that was started in the past by the anti government forces. On the whole, the mood is one of deliverance of the country that was going down a dangerous path. People are of the opinion that the government acted well in time and decisively to head off what was turning into a very destructive upheaval that would surely create havoc for the economy and normal life and living.

The people now expect the government to go on being tough and not to allow the trouble makers to plot and develop more troubles. One immediate policy aim the people look forward from their government is full maintenance of law and order. This must be attained by not being soft on law breakers who are otherwise taking the law into their own hands. For the government to earn confidence and support and to be able to contain violence effectively, it must show its continuing determination that it intends to be completely unsparing or uncompromising in relation to all law breakers regardless of their party labels.

The country’s business leaders represented in the leading chamber bodies have expressed their opinion to this end time and again. They have mainly appealed to the opposition forces to refrain from doing anything that could again pull down the country’s vital external trade specially in the backdrop of the on going pandemic. The country’s export trade was in a depressed state due to Covid-19 related developments. The market prospects for Bangladesh’s export products only turned worse in the wake of the Corona virus induced threat. Any opposition backed revival of instability in the country would surely prove to be irreversible havoc for the economy in general when trade and industries have been showing clear signs of a recovery notwithstanding the pandemic and when they are still struggling hard to recover fully from the lingering inhospitable externalities facing them.

The Bangladesh economy is still not out of the woods considering that a fresh upsurge of the Corona threat is noted and there is no knowing what its consequences will be in the longer run in terms of loss of income, earnings and reduction in employment. The economy is practically still in need of resuscitation at the moment and a prolonged period of political strife is something that it cannot absolutely afford. Thus, the opposition parties particularly need to keep this consideration very prominently in their view and rethink all their actions while the government needs to ensure that any ‘irresponsible’ economy ruining activities of the opposition will be stopped by whatever drastic measures would be needed to that end.