The Republic on the Brink: Why Bangladesh Must Restore Sheikh Hasina to Power

Bangladesh stands today at a crossroads darkened by deception, betrayal, and a profound assault on its constitutional identity. On 8 August 2024, the interim government led by Dr. Muhammad Yunus was installed under circumstances neither democratic in nature nor lawful in character. The event was not a peaceful transition of power, but the culmination of an elaborate scheme engineered through foreign influence, internal treachery, and a deliberate subversion of the Constitution of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. What followed has not been governance — but governance hollowed out; not leadership — but occupation in disguise.

There has been no people’s government in Bangladesh since that day. Instead, the nation has been bled, plundered and mutilated before the eyes of a stunned citizenry who had once believed that the sacrifices of 1971 promised permanence to their sovereignty. The Bangladesh of today is a place where the hopes of the common people have been replaced by dread, where the economy sinks under the weight of reckless mismanagement, and where public trust — once a sacred currency — is squandered like loose coins thrown to beggars on the roadside.

The Mirage of Moral Posturing

Dr. Yunus ascended to power not through the ballot box, not by mandate of the people, but through an extra-constitutional seizure of authority. He and his circle of advisers, many of whom have been parachuted into positions of power without credibility, accountability, or legitimacy, have presided over the systematic draining of the national treasury.

They have traveled abroad under hollow pretenses — “rebuilding relationships,” “attracting investment,” “securing partnerships.” Yet not a single policy, project, or economic initiative stands as evidence of their claimed efforts.

What remains is a hemorrhage of public wealth, a mockery of state stewardship, and a grotesque parade of self-congratulation.

In the words of John Adams:

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”

And the facts today speak volumes:

• Inflation has surged.
• Investment confidence has evaporated.
• Capital flight has accelerated at a record pace.
• Institutions have become tools of factional vengeance.
• The media has been bullied into silence or coerced into flattery.

Bangladesh bleeds — and the people watch, helpless.

The Birth of a Banana Republic

What has emerged under Yunus’s watch is not a democracy, but a res publica in name only — a banana republic in practice.

Extremist ideologues, once defeated and dismantled under years of vigilant state policy pursued by HPM Sheikh Hasina, now gain footholds at every institutional corner. The very forces that opposed Bangladesh’s birth in 1971 — the proponents of the two-nation theory — are again resurgent, emboldened, re-armed, and repositioned.

The ideological architecture of secular Bangladesh is being dismantled brick by brick — replaced by a regressive fanaticism masquerading as nationalism.

Jamat-e-Islami mass-murderer elements of 1971 when we were battling for life or death to establish Bangladesh -  the anti-Bangladesh liberation forces and their present direful progenies, far-right fundamentalists, revisionist academics, and clandestine foreign operatives now walk openly, empowered by a government that either sympathizes — or fears to challenge them.

Every crisis in history has its architecture, and this one is bold and unmistakable.

The Hasina Legacy and the Wound of Ouster

For over fifteen years, Sheikh Hasina presided over the most expansive era of development Bangladesh has ever witnessed. Poverty reduction, rural electrification, industrial expansion, women’s empowerment, education reform, international diplomacy, digital transformation — her record is a matter of measurable economic history.

World Bank reports positively.
IMF praises.
Asian Development Bank benchmarks.
UN Human Development Index climbs.

These were not slogans. These were facts.

She achieved what many developing nations could not: sustained growth, institutional modernization, macroeconomic stability, and a clear ideological stance against extremism.

And what was her reward?

A coup carried out under the fog of chaos engineered by local conspirators and foreign hands alike. She did not resign. She did not abdicate. Her mandate, earned by the people, stands legally intact until 2029.

The present interim governance is not legitimate — it is an aberration.

As Abraham Lincoln wrote in his First Inaugural Address:

“No government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.”

Bangladesh’s constitutional order was terminated unlawfully on 5t-8^th August 2024 — but it was not extinguished.

The Gathering Storm: Famine and Civil Conflict

The signs—though by no means exhaustive—are dire:
Food supply chains stand fractured.
Agricultural subsidies are eroding into dust.
Export revenues are drying up at an alarming pace.
The labor market gasps for breath.
Mob vigilantism runs unchecked.
Corruption and bribery have soared to grotesque heights.
Prisons are filled beyond capacity.
Freedom of speech and the liberty to write and think are being ruthlessly throttled.
Since 5 August 2024, the nation has bled—across every sector, every district, every stratum of life.

Political polarization has metastasized into armed polarization.

Bangladesh now stands on the brink of a humanitarian disaster — one not imposed by nature, but by deliberate misrule by the Yunus led unlawful puppet government installed by the American deep state CIA and their rogue operatives, both within and outside Bangladesh.

The specter of civil conflict is not a metaphor — it is a probability gathering weight with every passing month.

And history has shown, again and again, that when nations descend into chaos, foreign powers return not as benefactors — but as scavengers.

The Imperative of Restoration

To avert catastrophe, Bangladesh requires more than rhetoric and grievance. It requires restoration: of the constitutional order, of popular legitimacy, of governance by consent rather than coercion.

Sheikh Hasina must return — not as a symbol, not as a personality, but as the rightful head of government chosen by the sovereign will of the people.

Her return is not merely a political necessity.
It is a national survival imperative.

Bangladesh cannot be steered through this gathering storm by a regime that governs without mandate, without vision, and without loyalty to the foundational values of the Republic that we attained in 1971 at the bay of blood

Terminus Point: The Spirit of 1971 Calls

Rabindranath Tagore once wrote:

“Power takes men away from themselves. The only great men who we know are those who have kept their hearts.”

The current interim authority has lost its heart.
The Republic has lost its path.
But the people have not lost their memory.

The spirit of 1971 — forged in fire, sacrifice, and the unbreakable will to stand free — now calls upon us once more.

Not for war.
Not for chaos.
But for restoration.

For truth.
For justice.
For Bangladesh.

Let the torch be restored to HPM Sheikh Hasina, that she may once again assume the helm of Bangladesh and rekindle the nation’s radiant spirit, returning it to its rightful, dignified standing among the proud and sovereign states of the world. And let us, with unwavering resolve, expel the anti-Bangladesh conspirators and their poisonous mango-twigs who have trespassed upon and defiled our beloved homeland.

By: Anwar A. Khan:

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