New Election in Bangladesh is redundant because Sheikh Hasina is still the legitimate Prime Minister of Bangladesh

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-Shibirbutchers, 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 marionette “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

A New Election is Redundant—For She is the Legitimate Leader of Bangladesh Until 2028.
History is not merely the chronicle of nations—it is the living conscience of their peoples. As George Santayana wisely observed, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Bangladesh, born from fire and blood in 1971, now finds herself once again under siege—not from the marauding Pakistani army in uniform, but from a far more insidious coalition of global manipulators, domestic collaborators, and mercenary opportunists who serve interests alien to the nation’s very soul.

On 5 August 2024, Sheikh Hasina—the longest-serving and most transformative Prime Minister in Bangladesh’s history—was not overthrown 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 d’état meticulously choreographed by the shadowy alliance of the American deep state’s CIA and Pakistan’s perfidious ISI, abetted by their local accomplices—Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the ever-opportunistic Waker clique, the Jamaat-Shibir butchers, and their political fosterling, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)—a party conceived within the confines of the Dhaka Cantonment, the illegitimate offspring of military despotism.

Then, on 8 August 2024, the world witnessed a travesty: Dr. Yunus, the Nobel-branded darling of the West, was installed as the head of a so-called “interim government.” This regime was not born of the people’s mandate; it was manufactured—an unlawful puppet administration designed not for Bangladesh’s welfare, but to serve the geo-political appetites of Washington and Rawalpindi. Such an arrangement is not democracy—it is the desecration of democracy, a mockery of the people’s sovereignty and an affront to the Constitution of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh.

Sheikh Hasina remains, in every constitutional and moral sense, the legitimate Prime Minister of Bangladesh. Her government, elected through the democratic process, retains its mandate until 2028. Any attempt to override that mandate under the guise of “interim governance” or “restorative democracy” is an act of high treason against the Republic.

Under her stewardship, Bangladesh soared to unprecedented heights—becoming a model of growth, social transformation, and technological advancement in South Asia. The country that once symbolized despair became a global example of resilience and progress. It was Sheikh Hasina who carried forward Bangabandhu’s unfinished dream of “Sonar Bangla,” ensuring that the spirit of 1971 did not fade into oblivion.

Yet, in the aftermath of the August 2024 coup, the forces of regression have returned in new garb. The very elements that collaborated with the Pakistani occupiers in 1971—the Jamaat-e-Islami and their ideological progeny—now masquerade as “democrats” and “reformers,” cloaked in Western rhetoric and funded by dubious foreign interests. They speak of “freedom” and “rights,” yet their hands drip with the blood of freedom fighters, intellectuals, and secular patriots.

The so-called interim administration has become a caricature of governance—a regime of repression, censorship, and vendetta. Dissenters are silenced, journalists intimidated, and activists disappeared under the cover of bureaucratic legality. The judiciary, once a pillar of justice, now teeters under political coercion. The CIA’s long shadow looms over every major decision, while the ISI’s venom seeps into the cracks of Bangladesh’s political and military establishment.

Let it be declared without equivocation: Bangladesh is not a laboratory for foreign experiments, nor a vassal state to be re-engineered by clandestine agencies. It is a sovereign republic, built upon the blood, tears, and dreams of millions who laid down their lives for liberty.

Those who now conspire to distort her democratic destiny—be they local traitors or foreign puppeteers—are writing themselves into the darkest chapters of history. Their schemes shall not endure, for the spirit of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahmanstill breathes through the veins of this nation, and his daughter—Sheikh Hasina—remains the living embodiment of that unbroken legacy.

To hold new elections under the boot of illegitimacy is to mock the very essence of democracy. The rightful government, led by Sheikh Hasina, still stands in constitutional continuity until 2028. No coup, no foreign conspiracy, and no propaganda masquerading as reform can erase the truth that Bangladesh’s sovereignty lies in the will of her people—not in the dictates of Washington, London, or Islamabad.

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 will awaken once more, as they did in 1971, to reclaim their republic from the hands of usurpers and collaborators.

Let history record this moment not as the fall of democracy, but as the beginning of a new resistance—a resistance rooted in justice, faith, and patriotism. Sheikh Hasina’s rightful place as Prime Minister until 2028 is not merely a matter of political legality; it is a moral imperative, a defense of the nation’s hard-won independence and democratic soul.

Bangladesh shall never bend before imperial arrogance nor succumb to domestic betrayal. HPM Sheikh Hasina shall rise once more—undaunted and resolute—to liberate the nation from malign forces, whether foreign or homegrown.

By: Anwar A. Khan

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