New Election in Bangladesh is Redunant: Sheikh Hasina is still the Legitmate Prime Minister of Bangladesh

WRITTEN IN DEFENSE OF BANGLADESH’S SOVEREIGNTY, DEMOCRACY, AND JUSTICE!

History is not only the story of nations; it is the conscience of peoples.

In the words of George Santayana, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Bangladesh, forged in blood and sacrifice in 1971, finds itself again under siege—this time not by the marauding Pakistani army in uniform, but by a more insidious coalition of international manipulators, local collaborators, and mercenary opportunists who serve interests alien to the soul of this nation.

On 5 August 2024, Sheikh Hasina, the longest-serving and most transformative Prime Minister in Bangladesh’s history, was not toppled by the will of her people, nor by any lawful constitutional process. She did not resign; she was forcibly and unlawfully deposed in a coup orchestrated by the shadowy nexus of the American deep state’s CIA and Pakistan’s most vile intelligence organ, the ISI, working hand-in-glove with domestic conspirators: Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the ever-opportunistic Waker coterie, the Jamaat-Shibir butchers, and their political fosterling, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)—a party conceived in the Dhaka cantonment under martial law like an illegitimate child of dictatorship.

On 8 August 2024, Dr. Yunus was installed as the head of an unlawful puppet “interim” government, a grotesque experiment designed not for Bangladesh’s welfare, but to secure Washington’s and Rawalpindi’s geo-political interests. Such an arrangement is not democracy—it is the desecration of democracy.

Sheikh Hasina Did Not Fall—She Was Pushed

Sheikh Hasina’s removal was not the result of constitutional process. Under Article 57 of the Constitution of Bangladesh, the Prime Minister only vacates office upon resignation, death, or loss of parliamentary majority. None of these conditions were met. Instead, an externally scripted coup was dressed up in the garb of a so-called uprising—an uprising cynically manufactured by recruiting madrasa students, street children, and impoverished youth, cloaked in jeans and T-shirts, masquerading as Dhaka University students.

The so-called anti-quota movement of July–August 2024 was a bloody charade. More than 1,000 of these coerced youths were butchered by the very conspirators who mobilized them, sacrificed to create the illusion of state repression. This diabolical theatre was orchestrated to ignite outrage and destabilize Hasina’s government. The world was told that students were killed by the government. The truth—seen with our own eyes—is that no genuine Dhaka University or major university student was killed. Instead, the pawns of poverty were slaughtered by those evil forces as mentioned above to feed the propaganda machine.

As the Roman historian Tacitus once wrote, “Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.” The audacity of these conspirators knows no bounds. They continue to walk the soil of Bangladesh while their hands drip with the blood of innocents.

The Phantom Election Without Awami League

Now, under Yunus’s unlawful dispensation, preparations are underway for a national election—a farcical contest minus the Awami League, minus Sheikh Hasina, minus the very party that led the Liberation War of 1971. This is not an election; it is political necromancy, raising the corpses of defeated forces to stalk the body of Bangladesh once more.

No election minus Awami League can claim legitimacy. It would be akin to attempting to write the American story without George Washington, or narrating India’s freedom struggle without Mahatma Gandhi. As Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared in 1972, “The soil of Bangladesh is soaked in the blood of our martyrs. We shall not allow their sacrifice to be betrayed.”

The people of Bangladesh will not recognize, nor participate in, such an election. For them, Sheikh Hasina remains the rightful Prime Minister, the lifeline of development, and the legitimate leader chosen by the vast majority.

The Return of 1971’s Griffins

I know these creatures—these Jamaat-Shibir mass murderers—from the burning fields of 1971. I saw them rape, loot, and slaughter in the garb of Islam. I saw them in 2013–2014 when they set fire to buses, killing innocents under the guise of protest. I saw them again in July–August 2024, reborn as griffins in the service of foreign masters.

They are not of Bangladesh. Their loyalties are rooted in Pakistan, the rogue state they mourned when Bangladesh was born. They masquerade as Muslims, but they are traders of religion, preying upon the faith of the masses for political gain. As the Quran warns: “Do not consume one another’s wealth unjustly or send it [in bribery] to the rulers in order that [they might aid] you…” (Surah Al-Baqarah 2:188). These Jamaati collaborators thrive precisely by violating this divine command.

Black, indeed, will take no other hues. The eternal fires of history—and God’s justice—await them.

The Wounds of August

Bangladesh bleeds ceaselessly since that dark day of 5 August 2024. This date must be etched alongside 15 August 1975, when Sheikh Hasina’s father, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was slain with most of her family in one of history’s vilest acts of treachery. Today, Hasina stands again as the lone survivor, the Joan of Arc of Bangladesh, with nothing left to lose but everything to give for her nation.

It is no exaggeration to say that only Sheikh Hasina can pull Bangladesh out of this dire condition. Her decades of leadership have turned Bangladesh into a rising economic star—praised by the World Bank, IMF, and UNDP for her policies on poverty reduction, women’s empowerment, and digital transformation. Under her watch, Bangladesh graduated from the UN’s list of least developed countries (LDCs), poised to be a middle-income nation. Such achievements cannot be erased by one year of puppet rule.

Justice Must Stand

The crimes of July–August 2024 cannot go unpunished. Those who murdered over a thousand poor youths to engineer a coup must be placed on the dock of justice. The International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh, established to prosecute 1971’s war criminals, stands as precedent that justice delayed is not justice denied. The tribunal itself, despite criticism, was praised by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR, 2013) for meeting international standards of accountability.

However, the current International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh—following the events of August 5th, 2024—has been unlawfully compromised and reconstituted by forces fundamentally opposed to the spirit of our Liberation. It now stands infiltrated by elements aligned with anti-Bangladesh agendas, primarily comprising individuals affiliated with the notorious Jamaat-e-Islami–Shibir apparatus—those who, from beginning to end, are historically linked to the butchery of 1971.

This tribunal appears to have been repurposed, not to uphold justice, but to manufacture false accusations against the leaders of the Awami League—chief among them, Hon’ble Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina—in a vindictive effort to avenge the defeat of 1971. It is a sinister campaign orchestrated by the same axis of malevolence: Pakistan, the United States, China, and their local collaborators, especially the genocidal forces of Jamaat-e-Islami.

Let it not be forgotten that these very actors were responsible for the brutal massacre of three million of our freedom-loving compatriots, and the unspeakable violation of over 300,000 of our mothers and sisters—atrocities which culminated in the birth of sovereign Bangladesh on 16th December 1971.

If Bangladesh could bring to trial the beasts of 1971 four decades later, surely it can bring to justice the conspirators of 2024.

The Imperative of Hasina’s Return

The truth cannot be buried forever. Sheikh Hasina is still the legitimate Prime Minister of Bangladesh. Any new election conducted under Yunus’s illegitimate dispensation will not be accepted by the people. The imperative is clear: Sheikh Hasina must be welcomed back to Dhaka to reclaim the helm of state, to restore peace, and to guide Bangladesh once more toward the destiny her father envisioned.

As Abraham Lincoln once said, “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” The people of Bangladesh are not fooled. They know who their rightful leader is.

Terminus Point: Bangladesh Must Rise Again

The CIA-ISI-Yunus experiment is already collapsing under its own illegitimacy. Bangladesh bleeds, but it does not surrender. Like 1971, this too shall be a temporary eclipse before the sun of freedom rises again.

Bangladesh belongs to her martyrs, to her people of all faiths, and to the dream of a humane, secular, and prosperous nation. It does not belong to Washington, Rawalpindi, or their puppets.

The people cry out: No new election! No puppet regime! Sheikh Hasina is still our Prime Minister!

And so, it must be.

Written by Anwar Alam Khan

Author's Bio: Anwar Alam Khan, a direct witness of the brutal birth of Bangladesh from the direful Pakistani military regime from a very close proximity in 1971 and a frontline Freedom Fighter of the 1971 war field to establish Bangladesh.

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