Time magazine’s analysis: Will the weakness of the interim government bring back Sheikh Hasina?
Awami League president and former prime minister Sheikh Hasina was forced to leave the country on August 5 in the face of the student uprising. He is currently in India.
Awami League has been inactive since Sheikh Hasina left the country. Nobel laureate economist Dr. An interim government was formed with Muhammad Yunus as the chief adviser. That government and its supporters want to bring him back to the country to face justice. However, due to the close relationship of Awami League and Sheikh Hasina with India, it is almost impossible to bring her back to the country at the moment, the current interim government and the supporters of the government know that.
In the weeks after Sheikh Hasina left the country, there was a strong impression that the 75-year-old Awami League president would spend the rest of her life in exile. The quota reform movement and its subsequent results have created such a negative image of Sheikh Hasina at home and abroad that her return to Bangladesh politics will not be possible.
But recently this idea or belief is gradually fading away. Some of the international political analysts say that the lack of leadership in the politics of Bangladesh will once again create a way for Sheikh Hasina to return to the country and to do politics.
Mobaswer Hasan, a teacher-researcher at the University of Oslo in Norway and a citizen of Bangladesh, told Time magazine in this context that the current ruling government has legitimacy and public support; But this government is not an elected government. This government has no mandate. If Sheikh Hasina wants, then she can use this weakness to return to the country. It is only a matter of time.
Michael Kugelman, director of the Wilson Center, an American think tank, also thinks so. He told Time magazine that Sheikh Hasina’s return to Bangladesh and Bangladeshi politics is not only possible, but very possible. Because patriarchy is an integral part of the politics and political culture of South Asian countries. It has been around in South Asia for ages. It cannot be expected that this culture will end in just one Bangladesh.
He further said, even then, the possibility of Sheikh Hasina’s return to Bangladesh and Bangladeshi politics would have ended if Awami League had been banned. But in the political reality of the country, this is absolutely not possible. Awami League is still the largest political party in Bangladesh.
