Dhaka: Bangladesh’s Awami League achieved high compliance during its Dhaka lockdown programme, with residents staying indoors and minimal public transport movement. Meanwhile, interim government chief adviser Muhammad Yunus proposed a referendum on the July Charter and the February general elections. Still, the announcement failed to reassure citizens frustrated by the ongoing illegitimacy and misrule. A recent report suggests rising nervousness within the Yunus regime amid fears of a potential Awami League resurgence in national politics.
On a day when the Yunus regime planned to decide the date of the court judgement on Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s cases, the Awami League made its presence felt.
The lockdown showcased people’s rejection of the state of politics being done by the Yunus regime and the parties that have celebrated the fall of the Awami League government, according to a report in NorthEast News.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Jamaat-e-Islami, and all other parties looking to reap benefits from the changed situation were left stunned by people’s response to the lockdown.
In a report, NorthEast News said, “The regime and its legal officers have now decreed that the verdict against Sheikh Hasina, who constitutionally remains Bangladesh’s Prime Minister, will be delivered on November 17. The public feeling is that the verdict has already been made obvious by the public utterances of the regime and its minions in recent months.”
“Sheikh Hasina could be ‘sentenced to death’. But for a nation which in recent weeks has seen public support for her rise, and not just among Awami League supporters, such a verdict imposed by an illegal court overseen by an equally illegal regime hardly matters. The sheer nervousness of the regime shows only too well its growing fear of a resurgence of the Awami League in Bangladesh’s politics. The success of the lockdown has also placed all political parties looking forward to coming by slices of the power cake in February in a quandary,” it added.
The Yunus regime and the anti-Awami League’s hatred for Sheikh Hasina and the impetus given to the re-energising of the Awami League through her recent interviews with Western and Indian media have been major reasons behind the change in the situation.
The Yunus regime has been forced to silence the media in Bangladesh as far as criticism of his actions is concerned.
According to the report, the Yunus regime is having cold feet these days, as lawyers and legal firms in countries like the UK have been formally complaining to international human rights bodies about the atrocities faced by Awami League activists and people of Bangladesh since August last year, with lawmakers abroad publicly condemning the misdeeds of the regime.
In a report, NorthEast News said, “If the Awami League can muster the kind of support it demonstrated through its lockdown on Thursday, one will rest content that between now and February, public outrage about a vote which eschews inclusivity through keeping the nation’s largest party out of it will only muddy the waters further. Yes, elections may be forced on the country in February. But they will be an exercise boycotted by more than 50 per cent, perhaps more, of citizens who have been adherents of the Awami League. That boycott will, from the day after the elections, throw up a new message, which is that the vote will have been a farce that fresh elections under a legally constituted caretaker government are called for. The success of the lockdown paves the path to new hope about the restoration of the foundational principles of the country.”
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–IANS
