ABSTRACT
Power structure refers to the groups and classes of people that wield power, how it is wielded and to whose benefit. Power may be used to bring about desirable changes, but it may also imply resistance to the same and maintenance of the status quo or retrogression. The main objective of the powerful of Dhaka city was greater access to wealth and power to benefit themselves, family, relatives, friends, members of their own organisation using any method, however unscrupulous, and in the shortest possible time. Newspaper and TV channel owners in Dhaka city was, by and large, extremely rich people with plenty of unearned wealth. Top office-bearers of various chambers of commerce and industry and business and trade associations, representing traders, businesspersons and industrialists constituted another group of powerful people in Dhaka city. However, the most powerful in Dhaka city also had their weaknesses.
