Bangladesh: Some Views On Significance Of August 5, 2024 Revolution – OpEd

Bangladesh has been freed of the decades-old Indian hegemonism and fascist Awami authoritarianism on 5 August 2024. Student-led patriots and nationalists came forward in huge masses and with the additional but crucial help of the patriotic armed forces successfully toppled the ruthless Hasina-led Awami fascists.

The country was bleeding and reeling as if it was literally in a deep and dangerous whirlpool or going down the Bermuda Triangle. They looted and plundered and smuggled billions, not just millions, as they killed and kidnapped and imprisoned and hounded and harassed hundreds of thousands. With their fall, the people of Bangladesh have achieved their goals of “India Out,” “Awami League Out” and “Anti-Muslim Bigots Out” and have their mission fulfilled. Nobel Laureate Professor Dr Mohammad Yunus’s new patriotic and democratic government’s revolutionary reforms are well underway with many of the endlessly and enormously corrupt and cruel Hasina-led fascists, like the Indian Hinduism-draped-and-soaked Srimoti Hasina herself, fleeing the country to safe shelter abroad, some still hiding somewhere down the drains and some in the process of being brought to account (Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7SpBReX69M). Human rights, rule of law and social justice have started being upheld and implemented. 

Going back in history a little, there are five factual and foundational lies and errors that are responsible for the deeply distorting, diluting, and discoloring factors at the very basics of the existence of Bangladesh as a nation that once emerged as an independent country with a geographical and territorial boundary of its own. As we all know, India, under the garb and guise of a so-called secularism, is in fact a communal, fanatical and fundamentalist Hindutva country. It was so from the beginning in 1947 with the questions raised about its filthy and ferocious pursuit of “Akhand Bharat” ideology and its accompanying hidden and heinous hegemony of extending and trespassing into the other neighboring countries. In this, Hindutva India is similar to the State of Israel that started pursuing its venomous, belligerent and warmongering pursuit of “Zionism” a couple of years later. In both cases it was the obliteration and eradication of Islam and Muslims that was on their mind.

In any case, those five factual cracks and fissures in the very foundation of Bangladesh are:

(1) Sheikh Mujibur Rahman himself, politically a highly disturbing and divisive figure, being imposed by what has always been a traditionally terrorist party Awami League as the father of the nation despite the fact that: (a) he didn’t want the independence of Bangladesh and he wanted Pakistan to remain united, to begin with; (b) he surrendered and fled to Pakistan during the entire liberation war with no contribution whatsoever by him to the 9-month long war; (c) he is portrayed by critics, along with his immediate family members, including Hasina, as the first Rajakar family, who chose to remain during the entire length of the war under the safe protective custody of Pakistan with a humongous amount of monthly allowance from the Pakistan government; (d) Mujib (and Tajuddin before him) selling the interest of the country to India through their slavish and servile 12-point and 7-point agreements respectively; and (e) Mujib being a “third class administrator” during his three-and-half year rule causing a devasting state of anarchy and lawlessness, bloodshed and violence, corruption and famine, and personality cult and one party rule that inevitably invited his assassination by patriot soldiers in the army. (See Section 1.12 “Bangladesh: Father of the Nation?” in Q M Jalal Khan (ed), Bangladesh: Social Media Outcries Against the Awami Fascism (New Jersey: Writer’s Republic, 2022), 357-392; Abid Bahar, Forbidden Truth: A Dynasty of Dictators in Bangladesh Politics –Sheikh Mujib and Sheikh Hasina (Xlibris US, Oct. 25 2023).

(2) The number of the 1971 war dead, which could never be the false and fictitious number of 30, 00,000 (30 lacs or 3 million) that was originally mistakenly claimed either as a misunderstanding of the figure of 3.00.000 (3 lacs) or as a slip of the tongue by Sheikh Mujib himself in London in January 1972. As the scholars and researchers show ample evidence, the actual number could never be more than 50,000 or even less. (See Chapter 3, “Bangladesh’s War Dead: Controversy Over the Casualty Numbers” in Q M Jalal Khan, Bangladesh in Bondage (Springer: Palgrave MacMillan, 2021), pp.75-84.

(3) The introduction of what was in the context of Bangladesh a wrong notion of secularism, which was never there in the pre-1971 period but which entered the political discourse of the newly independent Bangladesh under the influence of India. It was meant only to demote and destroy Islam and promote and propagate Hinduism to the extent of the bowdlerizing banishment or at least the suppression of the religion of Islam itself intended to deprive the Muslim majority of Bangladesh of their religious culture and freedom. To repeat, secularism in the sense of the fair share of freedom for all faiths, majority as well as minority, tribal or indigenous, is, unlike the West, a misnomer in the context of Bangladesh where the term is used, especially during the Awami-BAKSAL regimes, as a cover and camouflage for the promotion of Hinduism to the extent of propagating the communal, fanatical and fundamentalist Hindutva and ISKCON at the expense of the Islamic religion to the extent of eroding, demoting and distorting the faith of over 90% majority. In other words, as a most dedicated anti-fascist and anti-Awami online Bangladeshi-British activist Zoglul Husain comments, “secularism has been used for Indian cultural aggression in Bangladesh as a tool of hegemonism. They even printed the picture of a Hindu idol in a Muslim religious book, and after huge criticism by the public, the government amended it.” They changed the school curriculum to remove whatever Islamic content was there only to be replaced by Hindu materials. In a number of cases, they put Hindus in charge of Islamic educational institutions, which was a joke.

(4) The nonstop and relentless Awami-BAKSAL tyranny and dictatorship during 1972-ba1975, 1996-2000, and 2009-2024. Their dastardly dictatorship tore the country apart with its social and national fabrics totally demolished; and, finally,

(5) The Indian-influenced wrong choice of the existing national anthem that proved to be highly divisive and disastrous to the formation of nationalism, nationhood, and national and religious identity of Bangladesh. (see: A. https://southasiajournal.net/make-it-snappy-lets-do-away-with-our-existing-national-anthem/ ; https://dailycountrytodaybd.com/story/let%E2%80%99s-make-haste-to-do-away-with-our-existing-national-anthem;www.eurasiareview.com/18092024-make-it-snappy-time-to-do-away-with-bangladeshs-existing-national-anthem-oped/;

B. https://dailycountrytodaybd.com/story/the-rationality-of-changing-the-national-anthem-of-bangladesh;www.eurasiareview.com/24092024-bangladeshs-national-anthem-controversy-continues/ .

To be honest, the recent liberation of Bangladesh on 5 August 2024 is perhaps the truest and most real liberation of Bangladesh from dec (A0ades of overwhelmingly fetid and fascist Awami regime. Taken into account their one-party reigns of murderous turmoil, bloody violence, unrest, famine, and lack of the rule of law, good governance, and social justice, the awfully autocratic Awami League has had no tradition in the history of Bangladesh except their all-engulfing and all-consuming terror, tyranny and terrorism.

The immediate past Awami regime of the utterly decayed and decadent and diminutive daughter (2009-2024) was the worst and darkest of all combined—her previous term (1996-2000) and her father’s only pathetic term, all being phases or periods of increasing misrule and lawlessness and total lack of accountability. Hasina’s last was a regime of widespread bloodshed and violence, hundreds of cold-blooded murders and massacres, most painful and blood clotting enforced abductions and disappearances, heart rending extrajudicial crossfires, inhuman brutalities and choking human rights violations, rampant oppression and repression of the political opposition, blanket persecution and prosecution of the opposition political leaders and activists, bulldozed, upended and stillborn elections, massive vote rigging with wild and all-out suppression, blindly indiscriminate (far from being civilized and positively discriminating) discrimination, and endless loot and plunder, to summarize in only a few phrases the ruthless Awami regime from January 1972 to July 2024 dotted, however, with only a few short spells of free, fair and fine interregnums under President Khandoker Mushtaqe Ahmad, President Ziaur Rahman and Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia.

It is in light of the above that Bangladeshi-Canadian Shamim Iqbal Rony, a high-class business owner in Bangladesh (Founder and CEO, Shukran Rice Mills Dhaka and former Vice Chairman Al Arafa Islami Bank), comments:

“We must realize that the present situation is not a political outcome. It was a people’s revolution. The movement was against the Indian hegemony represented by one of the most oppressing leaders (Sheikh Hasina), a most cruel and inhuman beast of a political leader (Sheikh Hasina) the world may have seen. Bangladesh got its true freedom for the first time in its history at the cost of many lives and blood of our children from all walks of life. It was an incredible price to pay and cannot be allowed to be politicized to allow Indian infiltration again as evident form continuous attempts at it since 5 August 2024. First of all, I feel the title of the present government is wrong. It should be ‘The Government of the Revolution’ (TGR), not interim that suggests its temporary nature and therefore makes it inherently weak. TGR should perhaps be the only government who can stand up tall with its head held high and must operate with the solemn duty and responsibility to rewrite the way forward for the new Bangladesh that can clearly recognize the very root cause of the Revolution: the insurmountable oppression of BAL (Bangladesh Awami league) on our people and the evil Indian hegemony that it allowed to roll out mercilessly supported by India. Bangladesh needs to honor the sacrifice of our people that made it possible for us to see August 5 and the birth of TGR. The revolution has to be a permanent end to the intolerable torture and oppression of the BAL on the people of the county in all fronts. Therefore, the permanent death of BAL is a fundamental need and the foundation on which the revolution was born needs to be made permanent too. It must indeed be the end of everything and anything associated with such a regime, including the so-called CONSTITUTION. TGR must rewrite the constitution from scratch. The present constitution is redundant for it has failed to protect our sovereignty and our people against the worst atrocities and oppression in its history. The existence of the current constitution is giving rise to manipulation by those who devised it for the purpose of permanent demise of our own sovereignty and could not remove its president who, as per the same constitution, does not qualify to occupy the position. Therefore, it is already a joke. In response to (Retd) Engineer Abul Salahuddin’s comment that ‘It doesn’t matter whether she hyena {Hasina) resigned or not, she was overthrown by a huge popular uprising. She is totally disoriented, mad and evil. She will be torn to pieces if she returns from India,’ I say that the previous BAL government tactically kept the hopeless/corrupted constitution alive and that is why it should be completely abolished. Indian conspiracies through the active BAL instruments are not going to stop.”

Shamim Iqbal continues, “This government however is politically inexperienced thus needs strong unequivocal support and protection from the existing and new aspiring political parties to continue with its goal on political and foreign policy front. I also feel that 5 August 2024 should also mark the end of a history of the country that must be permanently closed. It started preceding the 1971 and ended with the demise of BAL. Except the brief term of the late President Ziaur Rahman, I don’t see much point in dissecting that history as many don’t see that history to be beneficial to the people at large. Therefore, that history chapter should be closed and August 5 should mark the beginning of a new Bangladesh that does not use its dark and filthy political history as the foundation of the new. This will prevent division among the people and shift the focus forward on what we need to achieve. Bangladesh is a nation of proud yet humble Muslim majority people. We must strike a balance between greed-based capitalism and the ideologies of Islam and use the formula for a progressive and decent society. We have the potential to achieve this but it would scare the living daylights out of India and hence the continuous infiltration and control attempt from India. If we agree on the above in principle, then there is a unity in thought and without unilateral unity in the core philosophy of any organization it may not be sustainable.”

The student-led uprising in July-August 2024 culminating in the overthrow of the Hasina-led fetid and fascist Awami regime of mafia gangs and goons and hoodlums and hooligans has no doubt brought a great sigh of relief to Bangladesh. One unknown person belonging to a certain South Asia Studies group rightly comments, “We want a shield of national unity to support and make the interim govt. successful in their reform works. During the last fifteen years the nation has been divided with an ulterior motive of making the nation weak in all respects. The recent July- August Revolution has opened a new chapter for the nation to stand on its own feet and there is nothing short of a national unity which could meet the nation’s aspirations of making a New Bangladesh free from blind politicization and political discrimination.”

However, that is not to undermine the previous two historic turning points of liberation. This is what is argued by (Retd) Col Rashed Chowdhury, a decorated freedom fighter in 1971 and later a diplomat and a celebrated author and political analyst. Generally agreeing with how Shamim Iqbal articulated above, Col Chowdhury brings out a few points to the fore. Let me quote him in full:

“1. True, the sacrifice and accomplishment of August 5 cannot be denied. But I don’t think it is the only true independence of the country. First, we cannot ignore the independence in 1971, however way that has been achieved. That remains the original independence of the country and all references do come from there.

2. ⁠August 15, 1975 Revolution. Most people forget what the day has accomplished for the country, for its people and the society. The day, and by the subsequent and related events on November 7 led to the episodes of real independence, establishment of multi-party democracy, national identity and all-round prosperity, only to be hijacked by 1/11 (11 January 2007) betrayal and the subsequent December 2008 rigged elections. We know the rest of the story until August 5, 2024.

3. ⁠The concept of Revolutionary Government is great! Under the circumstances this may be the only way. However, revolutionary government needs to have revolutionary people/elements in it. The present IG (Interim Government) doesn’t have that other than two or three student leaders.

4. ⁠The contribution of the military, particularly the Army, which facilitated the August 5 victory, cannot be ignored. As such, military elements must be involved in the revolutionary administration. Mind you, as we have seen, military holds a strong link and part in the running of an administration in our country. Pushing it away too far may be counterproductive. Let’s not go to that position.

5. ⁠Everyone agrees that the constitution needs to be completely overruled. I believe it should be done by the elected representatives, not by a temporary or revolutionary administration. Even if it is done by a revolutionary government, it needs to be formalized by an elected parliament. I believe this will take time.

6. ⁠The present priority should be clearing and cleansing the dirt ( জঞ্জাল) created by fascist Hasina during her two decades of combined misrule. It will also take time. Once that is done, we may think of an election in which people can freely choose their representatives who will form a national and patriotic government for the good of the country and the people.

7. ⁠Please do not forget the fascist elements and their backers across the border are not sitting idle. We have already seen their conspiracies and destructive activities. This is purely my perception and may not conform to many other enlightened ideas.”

Bangladesh’s new and second (which may also be called the third or even fourth) liberation on 5 August 2024 was in fact a true and real liberation, notwithstanding those on 16 December 1971 and 15 August and 7 November 1975. However, the first one on 16 December may have been a liberation of Bangladesh from the domination of Pakistan but it was also an immediate and outright enslavement to India, both in cash and kind, through hundreds of slavish and servile Awami agreements with them under Mujib and Hasina. As identified before, India is out-and-out a communal, fanatical and fundamentalist Hindutva country. The post-independence enslavement was later willingly and intentionally pushed deeper by Mujib’s most cruel and indescribably ruthless dictator daughter Hasina, who committed sheer and stark treason by her increasingly spendthrift and extravagant expense of Bangladesh’s national interest to India in terms of our freedom, sovereignty and territorial integrity.

According to a most dedicated anti-fascist anti-BAL anti-Hindutva India and Bangladeshi-British online activist Zoglul Husain (who is a retired computer consultant, recipient of a freedom award in the UK and also an author of numerous articles), “Both Mujib and Hasina, father and daughter, were the fascist killers and tyrants. The fascist Mujib regime killed 30 thousand patriots, perpetrated indiscriminate killings, torture, tyranny, oppression, repression, reckless plunder, caused a man-made famine, in which 1.5 million people perished, and above all, it sold out national interest and surrendered sovereignty to India. He never wanted the independence of Bangladesh. On the night of 25 March 1971, he refused to declare independence, saying he didn’t want to face the charges of sedition. He arranged with Yahya his and his family’s safety, arranged a hefty monthly allowance of 1,500 rupees (about 5 lac taka now) for his family, and surrendered. Yahya paid that monthly allowance to his family for the 9 months of the freedom war. Military officers, including Tikka Khan, visited his family from time to time to look after them during the genocide and the freedom war. Mujib thus collaborated with Yahya on the night of 25 March 1971, and he became the first collaborator and a national traitor since then. Hasina’s fascist puppet regime perpetrated 4 massacres (on BDR, Jamaat, Hefazat, and the students), indiscriminate killings, terror, tyranny, torture, oppression, repression, massive imprisonment, extortion, plunder, reckless corruption, etc. and above all it sold out national interest and surrendered sovereignty to India. The AL and the Hasina regime stole the elections of 2008, 2014, 2018, and 2024 and hence was an un-elected regime. The glorious student-people uprising toppled the barbarous regime on 5 August 2024.”

A person of wide-ranging knowledge, Husain attempts to nicely articulate some of the highlights mentioned above in his own vernacular (Bengali):

“মুজিবের পক্ষে দীর্ঘকাল আওয়ামী-ভারতীয় প্রচারণা ও ১৫ বছর ধরে তার মূর্তি বানানোর পর, অনেকে বলেন মুজিব ছিলেন স্বাধীনতার স্থপতি। কিন্তু বাস্তবে মুজিব কখনো স্বাধীনতার স্থপতি ছিলেন না। মুজিব কখনো স্বাধীনতা ঘোষণা করেন নি, বা চান নি। ২৫ মার্চ ১৯৭১ রাতে তিনি নিজের ও নিজ পরিবারের নিরাপত্তা এবং পরিবারের জন্য মাসিক ১,৫০০ রুপি (এখনকার কয়েক লক্ষ টাকা) ভাতার ব্যবস্থা করে আত্মসমর্পণ করেন। বিদ্রোহ দমনের পর তাকে প্রধানমন্ত্রী করা হবে,ইয়াহিয়ার এই আশ্বাসে, তিনি ইয়াহিয়ার সঙ্গে সহযোগিতা করেন। ২৫ মার্চ রাতে তিনি ছিলেন ইয়াহিয়ার প্রথম সহযোগী ও জাতীয় বিশ্বাসঘাতক। জাতীয় বেঈমান মুজিব ১৯৭২-৭৫ এক ফ্যাসিবাদী জালেমশাহী কায়েম করেন। মুজিব আমলে আ’লীগ ও ভারতের কারসাজিতে রক্ষীবাহিনীর হাতে নিহত হয় ৩০ হাজার দেশপ্রেমিক, দেশে চলে বর্বর হত্যা, গুম, নিপীড়ন, দখলবাজি, বেপরোয়া আইনহীনতা ও দুর্নীতি, তারা খাদ্যসামগ্রী সীমান্ত পাচার করে সৃষ্টি করে মানুষসৃষ্ট দুর্ভিক্ষ যাতে মৃত্যু হয় ১৫ লক্ষ মানুষের, আর বাংলাদেশে প্রতিষ্ঠিত হয় ভারতীয় বর্বর লুন্ঠন ও আধিপত্যবাদ এবং বাকশালী স্বৈরাচার। দেশের এই চরম বিপর্যয়ে সেনা-জনতার ১৫ আগষ্ট ও ৭ নভেম্বর ১৯৭৫-এর গৌরবময় অভ্যুত্থানে দেশ রক্ষা পায়। ৫ আগস্ট ২০২৪ ছাত্র-জনতার গৌরবময় অভ্যুত্থানের প্রতি সেনা সমর্থনে, পতন হয়ভারত সমর্থিত,বর্বর ফ্যাসিবাদী, অনির্বাচিত হাসিনা সরকারের। সৃষ্টি হয় ঐতিহাসিক এক নতুন যুগের। ৮ আগস্ট আন্দোলনকারীদের দ্বারা গঠিত হয় নোবেল বিজয়ী ডঃ ইউনুসের নেতৃত্বে অন্তর্বর্তী সরকার। কিন্তু তখন থেকেই ফ্যাসিবাদী ও আধিপত্যবাদী দুশমনরা চালাতে থাকে একটির পর একটি চক্রান্ত, যার সবগুলোইএ পর্যন্ত ব্যর্থ হয়েছে। কিন্তু তারা থেমে নেই। চালিয়ে যাচ্ছে তাদের চক্রান্ত। তাদের লক্ষ্য অন্তর্বর্তী সরকারেরপতন ঘটানো এবং আওয়ামী লীগকে আবার ক্ষমতায় বসানো। তারা ৬ মাস, বা এক বছরের মধ্যেই, তা করতে চায়। কিন্তু ছাত্র-জনগণ, সেনাবাহিনী ও অন্তর্বর্তী সরকার যদি ঐক্যবদ্ধ থাকে, এখন যেমন আছে, তাহলে শত্রুদের চক্রান্ত ব্যর্থ হবে। আসু্‌ন, আমরা আওয়ামী ভারতীয় সকল চক্রান্ত রুখে দেই।অন্তর্বর্তী সরকারকে ব্যর্থ হতে দেয়া যাবে না, কারণএই সরকারের ব্যর্থতা আমাদের সবার ব্যর্থতা।আশাকরি দেশপ্রেমিক দলগুলি অন্তর্বর্তী সরকারকে সহায়তা করবেন এবং অন্তর্বর্তী সরকারও সঠিক পথে চলবেন। সমালোচকদের প্রতি অনুরোধ, তারা যেন গঠনমূলক সমালচনারমধ্যেই থাকেন, অতিউৎসাহী সমালোচনার দ্বারাশত্রুকে সাহায্য করবেন না।আওয়ামী ভারতীয় শত্রুরা দুটি অপপ্রচার চালাচ্ছে। প্রথমত, বাংলাদেশে হিন্দুদের উপর নিপীড়ন চালানো হচ্ছে, এবং দ্বিতীয়ত, হাসিনাকে সরিয়ে ইসলামী সন্ত্রাসীরা ক্ষমতায় বসেছে। ভারত দীর্ঘ দিন এ দুটো অপপ্রচার চালিয়েছে। তারা অনেক মিথ্যা-পতাকা আক্রমণ চালিয়েছে। বিদেশে তাদের দালালদের দ্বারা প্রচার চালিয়েছে। তাদের এ তাসগুলি এখন আর কাজ করে না।বাংলাদেশ ৫ আগস্ট যে মহান ও গৌরবময় বিজয় অর্জন করেছে, তা জনগণ দৃঢ় মনোবল দিয়ে ধরে রাখবেন। শত্রুদের সকল চক্রান্ত ব্যর্থ হবে, ইনশা’আল্লাহ!

Again, as summarized by Husain, “The fascist Mujib regime killed 30 thousand patriots, perpetrated indiscriminate killings, oppression, repression, lawlessness, reckless corruption, plunders, border smugglings, and created a man-made famine in which 1.5 million people died. It sold out national interest and surrendered sovereignty to India, and destroyed democracy with the formation of BAKSAL. The country was plunged into a deep abyss. The glorious army-people uprisings of 15 August and 7 November 1975 rescued the country.

Col Chowdhury provides a nice gist of the above: “Wonderful narrative of the Awami oppressive rule by father Sheikh Mujib and daughter Sheikh Hasina. The victory of August 15 Revolution brought an end to Mujib’s one party BAKSALi dictatorship, as did the August 5 Revolution to Hasina’s fascism. This may be read with the descriptions of Mujib’s betrayal with the nation in March 1971 and his destruction of the country afterwards with the abysmal damage done to Bangladesh by the Sheikh-duo continuing through 5 August. Democracy and human rights have entered the threshold of success when the student-people tsunami ousted the 20-year long fascist rule from Bangladesh on August 5, 2024. However, the problems, both within and outside the country, are still far from over, and the task of establishing those human and governing values on a firm footing is not easy. It will need concerted efforts and support by all the democratic and patriotic elements. Needless to warn, if the country fails this time, the consequences could be disastrous. May Allah (SWT) save Bangladesh from the curse of these Sheikhs!”

” Yet in another WhatsApp post, Chowdhury, like many others, including the LDP and GOP (both groups), rightly demands that the Awami League be totally and completely banned: “আড়াই যুগ ধরে (মুজিব ও হাসিনার আমলে) আওয়ামী গুম খুন বাপক হত্যাযজ্ঞ অত্যাচার অবিচার দুর্নীতি, গণতন্ত্র হত্যা, নির্বাচন প্রক্রিয়া কলুষিত এবং সর্বোপরি প্রতিবেশীর কাছে দেশের স্বার্থ বিক্রি— এসবের কারণে আওয়ামী লীগকে অবৈধ করার জন্য যথেষ্ট। কাল ক্ষেপন না করে তা যথাশীঘ্রই করা প্রয়োজন। প্রশাসনের মধে যারা এর বিরোধিতা করে বা করবে তাদেরকে বিদায় দিতে হবে। নতুবা কিছুদিনের মধ্যেই স্বৈরশাসন ফিরে এসে যেই লাউ সেই কদু হয়ে যাবে । অর্থাৎ, আম ছালা দুটোই হাতছাড়া। শুধু তাই নয়, আয়না ঘর ও সিকিম এর জন্যও প্রস্তুত থাকতে হবে।“

In contrast with the first (16 December) liberation, the ones that followed, particularly the most recent one on 5 August, marked a clear break of the people of Bangladesh with the dark and dangerous fascist Awami past. Student-people uprising achieved what no opposition political party did or could for the last 16 years during which, it’s true, they were oppressed but they were also weak, cowardly, incompetent, incapable, and mew-mew compromising with both the ruling BAL and the intruding and encroaching India in collusion with the BAL traitors. The London to Dhaka men at the top of the most major and most popular party BNP utterly failed to live up to the ideals of patriotism and nationalism that once used to be upheld by their legendary, stellar and spectacular leaders President Ziaur Rahman and Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia, undoubtedly the two most popular leaders of Bangladesh ever. Dead or alive, they’re still the most irresistible impact and influence on the politics of Bangladesh.

Unfortunately, many at the top of the BNP sitting on the so-called Standing Committee for many years now and many in the second tier, some of them being too old and too sick and too ailing to move and some rumored to be তলে তলে চাঁদাবাজ দুর্নীতিবাজ (criminals and extortionists under the table) and some alleged to be politically hypocritical conmen, never committed to those ideals to which the noble and immortal Zia and Khaleda always adhered to. The Zias founded the BNP and kept the party up and flying with enormous popularity through the years with a policy of even neutrality towards anti-Bangladesh India. Present BNP men at the top, who are hardly leader-like, know it very well that it was India and the Hasina BAL that were behind the conspiracy to kill President Zia and remove Begum Zia-led BNP from power through Pranab Mukherjee’s Ghora-Moin and all the Uddins (Moinuddin, Fakhruddin, Iajuddin, and Masududdin) mechanism, as they were also behind the early 2009 gruesome BDR massacre. Even then the current BNP men, from London to Dhaka, are said to be under the clout of RAW-India. What a shame! If true, aren’t they politically unfaithful to their party ideals that had earlier made their party BNP extremely popular? Aren’t they political traitors, betrayers, parricide, patricide and matricide? Isn’t the BNP at the top full of Mirza Fake-Rules (Watch Maj Delwar Hussain, https://fb.watch/uVpDaRo5kQ/?mibextid=z4kJoQ) for whom both the party and Begum Zia have been suffering hard.

Hope the BNP becomes “Like father, like son” and not a cripple at the mercy of Hindutva India. Hope the BNP gets out of the dominating command and control of RAW-Mathur-India and the devilishly debilitating Indian sphere of influence. Hope the party stops being a slavish B-team (after the openly servile Awami A-team) of India. Hope the party stands on its own, becomes truly patriotic and nationalist, and makes Bangladesh wield its powerful influence by raising the threat of destabilizing the surrounding seven sisters, not the other way around (of being threatened by anti-Muslim India). That Bangladesh is surrounded by India can be an advantage to Bangladesh that the nation can fully exploit and utilize, not letting India use Bangladesh’s close proximity to them to their advantage and our disadvantage! Until and unless India behaves, let Bangladesh’s foreign policy be, Malice to India and Friendship to the Rest of the World, particularly America and China. Let Bangladesh enter a cultural confederation and a nuclear pact/treaty with Pakistan to deter Hindutva India. Let the 5 August liberation pave the way for the implementation of those policies and principles.