Problems of Democracy- Crisis of Patriotic Leadership

Bangladesh is a country of endless prospects. There are huge possibilities and factors in favour of democratic growth and economic development in the country. Many third World countries started their journey towards democratic governance and economic development with fragile institutions as was in the case of Bangladesh still lags behind. The basic reason behind such a position is the leadership devoid of efficiency and spirit of patriotism, which these nations have been suffering since its independence.

Wise and efficient leadership for Democracy

Political security is also essential because people start feeling the necessary of dictatorship, if a democratic government is unable to protect the sovereignty and integrity of the country at the time of foreign invasion. If a government fails to remove the scarcity of essential commodities, if the prices of these commodities are abnormally high and if people starve owing to abject poverty, the people’s faith in democracy is shaken and they start feeling the necessity of some other type of government.

Parliamentary Democracy in Bangladesh

Democracy is a continuous political process which can only be sustained and developed by giving due attention to certain issues. It is never completely achieved; it grows into its being.[1] During the nineteenth century followed by industrial revolution and expansion of capitalism, democracy took off as a major political and social process based on maturing British and American model of democracy. Subsequently, after the end of the Second World War, most of the states of the Latin America, Central Europe and Asia have become liberated from the clutch of the colonial rule and they have gradually been turned into democratic political system. Like other countries of the contemporary world, Bangladesh after having been independent from the internal colonialism of Pakistan, adopted the parliamentary democracy as the political system enshrined in the constitution. Since then, we have passed about thirty-eight years but our achievements in the sphere of democracy and development are not noteworthy.