Interim govt reaffirms to counter propaganda, strengthen ties with US

Dhaka, 30 Jan  - The interim government has said they look forward to continuing to work with the United States and Bangladesh’s other friends and allies to combat efforts to manipulate the Trump administration and create divisions between countries through purely invented propaganda.

"The Interim Government has complete confidence that President Trump and his team will see through this transparent effort to create friction between Bangladesh and the United States," said the Chief Adviser's press wing on Thursday.

The US Department of State and its embassy in Dhaka are well aware that Professor Yunus meets with a wide variety of people, from senior government officials to leaders in business and civil society organisations, including those who are critical of Bangladesh itself, said its fact-checking wing.

The Organiser, a weekly in India, has launched "another salvo in the ongoing campaign of many Indian nationalists" to discredit Bangladesh’s interim government and pave the way for India’s proxy, Sheikh Hasina, to resume her despotic rule over Bangladesh, said the fact-checkers of the press wing.

The Organiser’s latest canard is that the meeting between Bangladesh’s Chief Adviser Mohammad Yunus and Alex Soros, president of the Open Society Foundation, constituted a challenge to President Trump, said the press wing of the CA.