Bangladesh heading for a chaotic time as opposition parties press for elections within the current year

By Our Correspondent

Agartala, June 8, 2025

Md Yunus, the chief advisor of the illegitimate interim government, is all set to face the prospect of navigation through choppy waters as the entire opposition excluding the Jamat-e-Islami and his sponsored National Citizens Party (NCP) have opposed national elections in June 2026 and demand to have it preponed to December this year. In his desperation to cling on to ill-begotten power Yunus had asserted in a televised speech last Friday that elections will come off latest by June 30 next year , much to the expressed disappointment of the opposition.

While the NCP, the tail-end of Yunus, has welcomed the announcement, the Jamat-e-Islami, main prop behind the illegitimate government, has feebly demanded that elections be held within April next year in a vain attempt keep an artificial distance from the current dispensation. But the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), main opposition and heir-apparent to the ousted Awami League government,has vociferously protested Yunus’s announcement , reiterating its demand for elections within December of the current year.

There is no official reaction to demand raised by BNP and other opposition parties but seniormost BNP leader and party’s secretary-general Mirza Fakhrul Alamgir has indicated that BNP and its allies will soon take to the streets to put pressure on the interim government and mobilize the already irate public opinion. Sources from Bangladesh said that besides the major opposition parties, the ousted Awami League which is currently under a ban has started mobilizing public opinion with sporadic but well-attended programmes . In many parts of the country the Awami League is also touching a responsive chord in the minds of the people who continue to reel under the all-round misrule and anarchy unleashed by the interim government and its supporters. The condition of minority Hindus and Buddhists has gone from bad to worse under the usurper interim government but they are maintaining a studied silence for fear of retaliatory attacks from the fundamentalist goons and thugs backed by the Yunus regime. “The condition is really restive and sooner rather than later mass agitations against the interim government will commence under the sponsorship of all opposition parties except the Jamat and its cohorts, ushering in a new round of instability and lawlessness in the country which is economically sinking” said sources.

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