Natural Justice - A Short Story
Natural Justice
"What will you do then?", said Jami, the MLA. Jamil was an MLA from Nastopur Legislative Constituency. He made his constituency a westland with his crooked politics. He represented the Sympathy Party. The ethics of this party was opposite to its name. Nastopur actually had different name, Sabujganj, but it was well known as Nastopur after 1 year of Jamin's election.
Jamil was continuously winning from that constituency after his first election. No other candidate dare to stand against him. Hooliganism was his sole power. The lives of the common and responsible people became too pathetic for him. Though they did not like him, yet none spoke against him for his hooligans,like Bappa Munshi, Dipu Mishra, Akbar Ali, Ansarul, Jabbar etc. They controlled the whole constituency, even the police were helpless before them.
In spite of all those, the cycle of time worked in silence. Jamil forgot that his power came from the people. The people were the source of his power, but he ill-treated them. So, in the ground level election, Jamil's party has a landslide defeat. That shook Jamil. He perceived his defeat in the future.
So, to capture the ground-level politics, he engaged his goons. He called them told if the ground offices were ran by opposition parties their income would be zero. How would they survive. Then he told his goons to capture the ground-level offices by any means. His goons razed the houses of the winning opposition party-candidates, threatened them, lodged police complaints against them, captured their lands etc. to bring them on their sife. Nastopur witnessed the worst form of political behaviour.
But all those inhuman activities yielded no result. The ground offices remained under opposition parties. The income of the goons almost stopped. They became useless and so left the region and shifted to other states. Then in the Legislative Assembly Election Jamil was defeated. After his defeat, people called his names in his face whenever they met him. So, Jamil stopped going out. He chose a secluded life.
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