Back-off! Help and support the Interim Government

Nobel laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus.

Prof. Rabiul Hasan, Ph.D.

I agree entirely with the intelligent statements made by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami’sAmeer Shafiqur Rahman and Bangladesh foreign friend Sir Frank Peters. (Green Watch 29/08/2024).

Co-jointly they speak with reason and commonsense. They are requesting patience and urging everyone to give the Interim Government an opportunity to work for the welfare of the country.

With so much to get right after a 15-year debacle, and the need for Bangladesh to grow up, this is no time for continuance of the political silliness that has plagued and held back progress in Bangladesh since it’s inception in 1971.

We are witness to Interim Government under the leadership of Nobel Laureate Professor Yunus, addressing the main issues that concern all and have benefitted Bangladesh more within the last fortnight than any and all of the previous governments.

Why would any political party, BNP, or otherwise, want the good the Interim Government is performing cut short? It’s ludicrous.

Over the last 15-odd years we’ve heard countless false screams washed with crocodile tears from Dictator and thief Sheikh Hasina and other Awami League MPDs condemning corruption and stating they would put a stop to it.

What they were really saying is, “no corruption permitted without our involvement” or “no corruption will be permitted (on a grand scale), that is exclusively our domain and we need no help in that regard”.

Each and EVERY single project undertaken by Hasina and her AL cronies were not to benefit the nation, as we were lead to believe, but to offer them an opportunity of lining their own pockets. Just like every new law benefits corrupt police. Before even work began, they scooped generous cuts and spirited the takings overseas to offshore bank accounts for later retrieval, like now.

What they did was disgusting, shameful and answerable to Allah. If Awami League never returns to power it will be a day too soon. Billions of dollars were stolen from the mouths of poor and starving people, including noble Freedom Fighters who put their lives online in 1971 and are now living hand to mouth, trying to make ends meet, and cope with the escalating cost of food and other essentials.

For any political party to try and stop or even hinder the Interim Government and prevent the cleaning-up operation from successfully completing its noble mission is an enemy of the state by their own admission.

For what reason, other than take control of corruption and line their pockets where AL left off, would any political party want elections held at this time? 

The people of Bangladesh are welcoming the change and are happy with the progress the Yunus Interim Government has made in the last few weeks. And we are grateful to the youth of the nation for providing the unique opportunity.

My message to all political parties is “Back-Off” with the nonsense rhetoric and interference; allow the Interim Government to make the necessary changes Bangladesh so desperately craves and needs.

If all political parties were patriotic and had the best interests of the people at heart, they would be assisting the Interim Government, pooling their ideas to make Bangladesh the best it’s capable of becoming, and not waste valuable time and resources hindering its progress.

It is time for all political parties to look inwards, reassess their own values as to what they have to offer Bangladesh. The Bangladesh that existed on August 4 is no more and the people will never be fooled again.

Prof. Rabiul Hasan, Ph.D.

Gulshan 2.