Post-Hasina Bangladesh

India needs to understand the nuanced reality of the ground situation in Bangladesh.

“We do not want the Awami League to participate in the elections.”

The interim government must dismantle entrenched structures of repression and impunity. Otherwise, the transition will be just a pause before the cycle of violence begins anew.

Not only are people vulnerable to crime but also, their faith in the interim government is eroding.

The interim administration is implying that elections are a deterrent to reform, as if Bangladesh has to choose one or the other.

It is part of Islamabad’s effort to enhance and diversify economic relations in its immediate neighborhood, focusing on trade and connectivity.

While the BNP wants elections to be held soon, the Jamaat is in favor of constitutional reforms preceding elections.

“The Bangladeshi state’s relationship with religion under the revised Constitution as recommended by the CRC would not be different from past decades.”

Their growing alliance will not bring stability to the region. Rather, it will raise the geopolitical temperature and provoke more Indian pressure on Bangladesh.

But are the allegations against the British MP politically motivated? Is the Yunus-led interim government settling scores with Hasina?

Advisers in the interim government argue that four agreements signed by the Hasina government with India are unequal.

The emergence of a third force in Bangladesh politics has disrupted the two-party system and could invigorate participatory democracy.