New Delhi: Months after Sheikh Hasina’s government was ousted in Bangladesh following a student-led mass movement, a leaked US diplomatic recording has triggered a new political storm. The disclosure has fuelled competing claims and counterclaims over the events that led to the dramatic 2024 regime change in the neighbouring country.
The leaked US diplomatic recording has put Washington at the centre of fresh accusations, as many from the Awami League have started pointing fingers over the former’s alleged role in effecting a power transition in Bangladesh.
The recording, published by a leading daily, StratNews Global, has conversations of a senior US diplomat speaking about engaging Bangladesh’s Islamist political forces and assessing the country’s trajectory in the post-Hasina era.
This has intensified calls for scrutinising the US’s role in Bangladesh and also given a handle to Awami League leaders to launch scathing attacks on Yunous regime for alleged collaboration.
Former Bangladesh education minister Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury, speaking at an event recently, said the audio goes to validate what the Awami League had long argued — that the fall of the Sheikh Hasina regime was not an entirely organic process.
Notably, Sheikh Hasina was forced to flee her country on August 5, 2024, after a student uprising resulted in a bloody stir, throwing the administration into complete disarray. She has been living in Delhi after leaving Bangladesh.
Hasan Chowdhury further pointed out that the US diplomat’s leaked audio conversation shows a ‘brazen conspiracy’ to manage post-election governments in Bangladesh and warned about the grave consequences arising from such a situation.
Taking strong exception to the debarring of the Awami League from contesting elections, he said that excluding major political forces like the Awami League would disenfranchise large sections of the electorate, thus leading to an illegitimate government without a popular public mandate.
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