A Parody of Power by Dr. Muhammad Yunus — The Theatrics of and the Erosion of Trust!

Bangladesh appears to be governed by the law of the jungle under the illegitimate and puppet regime headed by Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus.

Since 1966, I have observed the political landscape of this nation from the grassroots level with unwavering attention. On this day, the 23rd of May 2025, I traversed various critical locations across Dhaka — from Jamuna, the official residence of Chief Adviser Prof. Dr. Yunus, to Kakrail, Shahbagh, Dhaka University, the airport, and the Dhaka Cantonment (my own neighborhood).

Throughout the day, from morning until dusk, I noted that the presence and movement of the Bangladesh Army within the city were notably minimal — a silence that speaks volumes.

This reflection is penned in haste, driven by an overwhelming sense of urgency and responsibility, from the heart of an ordinary but deeply concerned senior citizen of Bangladesh.

Bangladesh’s unlawful interim government head Prof Dr. Muhammad Yunus reportedly threatened to quit power citing difficulties in carrying out his mandate due to the ongoing political stalemate. This is a travesty of the truth - Prof Dr. Yunus’s a melo-drama Drama — "Resignation."

A poignant designedly emotional appeal for empathy crafted with a meticulously designed plan by shrewd Dr. Yunus.

By all appearances, Dr. Muhammad Yunus—once garlanded as a Nobel laureate in the Western world for his manipulative intentional grapheme, a so-called sage of microcredit, and the supposed shepherd of democratic transition—has proven to be little more than a scholar miscast in the theater of governance in Bangladesh. 

The man who was one of the key masterminds after America’s deep state CIA and Pakistan’s vilest ISI in the wake of the July-August 2024 anti-quota protest by the pupils and unseated unlawfully HPM Sheikh Hasina, the most kind-hearted life-line for Bangladesh on 5 August 2024. The CIA-ISI bought Dr Yunus was installed in power in Bangladesh on 8 August 2024 to look after their interests in league with the local direful collaborators to restore order and integrity now appears more invested in staging scenes of melodramatic retreat than in fulfilling the obligations of statecraft. What the nation is now witnessing is not statesmanship—it is a grotesque burlesque of leadership of Dr. Yunus, played out in full view of a fatigued, disillusioned populace’s false beliefs.

The Farce of Resignation: A Hawk’s Hollow Cry

Dr. Yunus’s murmurs of resignation on 21 May 2025 at night time, cloaked in theatrical sighs and riddled with self-pity, are not signs of principled defiance but calculated diversions – meticulous evil designs. His performative despair—asking “what use is this office if I am held hostage?”—smacks of a man more eager to escape scrutiny than shoulder responsibility. This is not a tragic soliloquy from a Hamlet-like figure tormented by conscience, but the flailing script of a vicious actor hoping for applause in retreat.

What he brands as political paralysis is in truth the consequence of his own failure to lead decisively, to unify a fragmented nation, or to offer a roadmap for reform and a national election on time. A man who once designedly inspired belief in bottom-up change now presides over a government paralyzed by indecision, riddled with discord, and rotting from within. His murmuring wish to leave is a bluff cloaked in eloquence—it is to cling to power, veiled in the modest garb of careful words.

A Government of Disappointment

Let us be clear: this interim regime under Dr. Yunus has not governed. It has governed badly. Protests the extremum right-winger fundies choke Dhaka’s arteries daily. Disinformation swirls unchecked. Political factions grow more belligerent by the hour. The economy gasps, the public patience frays, and still, Dr. Yunus indulges in his Hamlet act, floating threats of resignation not to resolve crisis but to deflect blame.

What began as a hopeful experiment in transitional leadership has devolved into a tragicomic opera of delays, denials, and deflections. His government, once promised as a bridge to democracy, now resembles a sandcastle built too close to a rising tide. The people asked for a steward. They were handed a ghost.

The People Roar While the Palace Whispers

Across the country—from the tea shops of Sylhet to the shipyards of Khulna—voices rise in frustration. Yunus’s power has curdled into something far more dangerous: cynicism. The same youth who carried placards in hope now question whether they were duped by an academic unfit for the furnace of real politics.

Dr. Yunus clutches the podium, shivering with indecision, waiting for the world to clap or cry—anything but act.

A General Speaks, a Leader Stalls

Then came the thunder from General Waker-Uz-Zaman, whose call for elections by December 2025 did what Yunus could not: offer clarity. It may have ruffled feathers among the civilian elite, but it pierced through the fog of Dr. Yunus’s equivocations like a lightning strike. Whether one agrees with the General or not (in fact, he has proved worthless during the last 10 months), he spoke with the conviction that the Chief Adviser so obviously lacks.

Yunus’s silence in response is not dignified restraint. It is symptomatic of a man terrified to confront the very reality he helped shape. And when he does speak, it is only to lament the burdens of power, never to discharge them.

The Nation Deserves Better

Bangladesh stands at a crossroads—and Dr. Yunus, sadly, has become the wrong man holding the wrong map. The ignoble CIA installed unlawful puppet interim government, under his limp stewardship, has failed to deliver on its most basic promises: stability, transparency, and a credible path to elections. His continued dithering is not harmless; it is actively destabilizing a country in urgent need of direction.

If Dr. Yunus truly cares for this nation—as he so often claims in pensive tones—then let him step down not as a felon for his Brobdingnagian crimes committed over the last nine months, but as a man who simply could not lead. Let his exit be the end of this burlesque, and the beginning of a new chapter in Bangladesh's democratic journey. One not written by reluctant professors, but by determined patriots.

It is aptly said, he who has friendship with America, he doesn’t need any enemy! Dr. Yunus usurped power in Bangladesh unlawfully by a military coup d’etat on 5 August 2024 orchestrated by dreaded America and their direful collaborators to serve the exclusive purposes of America.

The Evil Design of America

The evil design of the Uncle Sam was for Sheikh Hasina’s remotion from power is to set-up a military base in our Saint Martin Island, in the northeastern part of the Bay of Bengal, about 9 km south of the tip of the Cox's Bazar-Teknaf peninsula, and forming the southernmost part of Bangladesh from where they want to control Southeast Asian and Eastern Asian countries making Bangladesh a feudatory state to serve their evil purposes.

The brazen-faced truth is: Sheikh Hasina didn’t cede to that western major power for their military base in Bangladesh! So, she was booted out from power. Dr. Yunus has been set to Bangladesh’s power to fulfill those interests of America. So, he cannot and shall not resign from power until and unless America’s geo-political interests are well served by him. If he does otherwise, CIA will not spare him under any circumstances – a grave consequence is waiting for Dr. Yunus.

Let the Curtain Fall

This regime, led by Dr. Yunus, is no longer a transitional government—it is a stalled vehicle on the highway to democracy. His theatrics about resignation may earn him headlines, but they will not spare him history’s judgment.

Let the curtain fall on this performance. Let the people rise again, not with illusions, but with resolve.

Because in the final measure, Bangladesh deserves not a dramatist, but a democrat - whispers behind closed doors, but leadership forged in the fire of accountability. And that, Dr. Yunus has failed to provide.

The army backed by dreaded Jamaat-e-Islami emblazoned ‘Interim Government’ led by Dr. Yunus now in Bangladesh is illegal, not consistent with or according to Bangladesh’s constitution and not morally right or permissible, because Sheikh Hasina has not resigned, but she was forced to leave Bangladesh at gun-points by the unworthy army chief and his mango-twigs dictated by America’s CIA, Pakistan’s ISI, China and some other local evil designers as mentioned above to turn the country into a stylus of Talibani-ISIS res publica - a Banana Republic.

Being a direct witness of the brutal birth of Bangladesh from a very close proximity in 1971 and a frontline Freedom Fighter of the 1971 war field to establish Bangladesh, I promise to chant Joy Bangla, Joy Bangabandhu and Joytu Sheikh Hasina until my last breath. Looking forward to seeing Sheikh Hasina back soon in Bangladesh.

If Sheikh Hasina is wrongly translated by the new generation, it is a long responsibility. This unstable generation will have to be regretful later, if they are humane, not like American government. 

Sent-In by: Anwar A. Khan

Anwar A. Khan was a freedom fighter in 1971 to establish Bangladesh based in Dhaka, Bangladesh who writes on politics and international issues.

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