Bangladesh Made Available To India At An ‘On-Sale’ Giveaway Price – OpEd
Under the present Hasina regime, Bangladesh has been made as ‘cheap’ as an ‘up for grab’ thing to India in quite a treasonous and perfidious manner. It is like a doll-dance (āĻĒā§āĻ¤ā§āĻ˛ āĻ¨āĻžāĻ) in the lap of India at the expense of the economic interest and territorial integrity of Bangladesh. Sheikh Hasinaâs rule is such a slashing and shameless sell-out to India that while hers is a zero tolerance for home critics against herself or her regime allowing them absolutely no freedom of speech (neither in print nor in social media) and detaining them at the laughably merest, minutest and slightest excuse, such zero tolerance scarcely applies to foreign (Indian) nationals, even if they committed terror acts inside Bangladesh in the name of ISA. Those people were not ordinary Hindus, they must be special agents trained in sabotage, including arson and assassination. Starting from the Felani case, no foreign agents have ever been tried and punished in Bangladesh. Rumors are rife that “friendly forces” from across the border were involved in the BDR revolt of 25/26 February 2009 with a secret understanding with Hasina.
There is also a rumor of the presence of non-local elements in the Shapla Chattor Hefajote massacre in May 2013 and Shatkhira massacre in 2013/2014. âThere are allegations that various formations of the Indian military participated in the crackdown, an allegation that Bangladesh government denies. Alleging the presence of Indian troops, the Daily Inqilab reported that Indian forces had been deployed in Satkhira to quell the protestors. The report detailed an alleged fax, dated November 6, 2013 from the between foreign ministry in Dhaka and the Bangladesh high commission in Delhi, requesting Indian troop presence in Satkhira.âForeign Minister Abdul Momen may explain that such “co-operation” between âhusbandâ and âwifeâ was routine and that there was nothing to be worried.
While Sheikh Hasina, is dividing the nation, would include the story of Bangladeshi born Indian actress Suchitra Sen in the school textbooks, while she would have the material on Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani excluded, although he was one of the great political and independence leaders and as such one of the founding fathers of Bangladesh.2 While the regime would return Senâs old house in Pabna, it would violently take away the long-inhabited home of the BNP leader, former Prime Minister DeshNetri and DeshMata Begum Khaleda Zia, literally forcibly ousted from the premises. Sheikh Hasina would not mind selecting the Indian film director Shyam Benegal, in a slap to the crop of Bangladeshi directors, to make a movie on her father Sheikh Mujib, of which Mujib himself would perhaps have been ashamed and would not have approved. After all, as the events of 1971 through January 1972 unfolded, from Dhaka to West Pakistani jail to London to New Delhi back to Dhaka, Mujib did not wholeheartedly like the Indian role in breaking up Pakistan (he was actually for a united Pakistan) nor did he like the Indian imposition of a national anthem on Bangladesh, as totally unrelated as it is to the independence and integrity of Bangladesh.3
Perhaps Sheikh Mujib would also not have approved of his betraying daughter Hasina either. She coaxed into the already âcursedâ Awami League (as once an Awami and now a BNP leader Fazlur Rahman termed it) those turncoat faces who had once gloried in their attempts to tear Mujib down and, in fact, had either danced a bacchanal dance or remained inactive and passive at his 15 August assassination. They would include the Indian-trained tank-tinker Hasanul Hoque Inu (with his slogan of âāĻŽā§āĻāĻŋāĻŦā§āĻ° āĻāĻžāĻŽāĻĄāĻŧāĻž āĻ¤ā§āĻ˛ā§ āĻ¨āĻŋāĻŦā§ āĻāĻŽāĻ°āĻžâ), âāĻŽā§āĻāĻŋāĻŦā§āĻ° āĻāĻžāĻŽāĻĄāĻŧāĻž āĻĻāĻŋāĻ¯āĻŧā§ āĻĄā§āĻāĻĄā§āĻāĻŋâ maker Matia Chowdhury, Rashed Khan Menon, K M Safiullah, H T Imam (who gladly conducted the swearing-in ceremony of the Mustaque cabinet immediately after the 15 August murder of Mujib), and the pro-Indian Tofael Ahmed of the brutal paramilitary Awami Gestapo force, the Rakkhi Bahini, who failed to make any move on the night Mujib was killed.4
Hasina seems to be more Indian than the Indians themselves are, just as the above-mentioned people have now converted into a more Awami Indian brand than many seasoned and veteran Awamis are or used to be, such as Dr Kamal Hussain, Nur-e-Alam Siddique, Prof Abu Sayeed and Barrister Amirul Islam. Such a slavish position adopted by Sheikh Hasina has been aptly described by the UK-based medical expert and prolific political writer Dr Firoz Mahboob Kamal as one of âEnforced Indebtedness to India & the Politics of Appeasement in Bangladeshâ and one of the politics of exclusion, division, destruction, betrayal and stark Indianization with a mockery of election and the constitution as she continues with her recurring coronation.5
Sheikh Hasina and her Awami cronies are busy appeasing India by pushing the platter over to the latter, eagerly and impatiently seeking its favor. Just as she appeases her Awami cohorts by clumping them together in a large number of two to three hundreds on her âroyalâ foreign trips, they also visit India in large delegations, clamped together, especially before the national elections, some even wearing Indian-flag-designed outfit on both national (26 March 2016 and 17 December 2014) as well as bilateral occasions.6 Time and again, even in 2017, Sheikh Hasina, being the head of the government of a sovereign country (however controversial, questionable, illegal and illegitimate her being in that position may be), takes pride in wearing Indian flag style womenâs wearâsareeâfollowed by the bandwagon of others among her sycophants and flatterers. The same people would take pleasure in Indiaâs offer of building an airport in the controversial Rampal area, to the shame of Bangladesh and to the benefit of India.7
A limping loser both at home in terms of being totally unacceptable, electorally speaking, to the people of Bangladesh and to the colonizing India along the border, Hasina would let an already huge trade deficit of $4,761 million between India and Bangladesh to continue to widen, to the serious disadvantage of Bangladesh.8 The imbalance of nearly ten times between the two countries stands at the following staggering figures provided by the well-known blogger Dr Pinaki Bhattacharya: âāĻāĻ¸ā§āĻ¨ āĻāĻžāĻ°āĻ¤ā§āĻ° āĻ¸āĻžāĻĨā§ āĻāĻŽāĻžāĻĻā§āĻ° āĻŦāĻžāĻŖāĻŋāĻā§āĻ¯ āĻāĻžāĻāĻ¤āĻŋāĻ° āĻšāĻŋāĻ¸āĻžāĻŦ āĻ¨ā§āĻāĨ¤ ā§§ā§¯ā§ā§¨-ā§ā§Š: ā§§ā§Ģā§Ļ.ā§ā§Ļ āĻŽāĻŋāĻ˛āĻŋāĻ¯āĻŧāĻ¨ āĻĄāĻ˛āĻžāĻ° āĻāĻāĻž āĻāĻŽā§ āĻāĻ¸ā§ ā§§ā§¯ā§ā§Ģ-ā§ā§Ŧ āĻ āĻ°ā§āĻĨāĻŦāĻāĻ°ā§ ā§Ģā§§.ā§¨ā§Ļ āĻŽāĻŋāĻ˛āĻŋāĻ¯āĻŧāĻ¨ āĻĄāĻ˛āĻžāĻ°ā§āĨ¤ āĻāĻ āĻāĻžāĻāĻ¤āĻŋ āĻĒā§āĻ°āĻŖā§ āĻ¸āĻŦāĻā§āĻ¯āĻŧā§ āĻŦā§āĻļā§ āĻā§āĻ¤āĻŋāĻ¤ā§āĻŦ āĻŽā§āĻāĻŋāĻŦ āĻĒāĻ°āĻŦāĻ°ā§āĻ¤ā§ āĻ¸āĻ°āĻāĻžāĻ°ā§āĻ°āĨ¤ āĻāĻŋāĻ¯āĻŧāĻžāĻ° āĻāĻŽāĻ˛ā§ ā§§ā§¯ā§ā§Ž-ā§ā§¯ āĻ¸āĻžāĻ˛ā§ āĻ¤āĻž āĻāĻ°ā§ āĻāĻŽā§ āĻĻāĻžāĻāĻĄāĻŧāĻžāĻ¯āĻŧ ā§¨ā§.ā§¯ā§Ļ āĻŽāĻŋāĻ˛āĻŋāĻ¯āĻŧāĻ¨ āĻĄāĻ˛āĻžāĻ°āĨ¤ āĻāĻāĻžāĻ āĻāĻŋāĻ˛ āĻāĻŋāĻ¯āĻŧāĻžāĻ° āĻāĻŽāĻ˛ā§ āĻāĻŽāĻžāĻĻā§āĻ° āĻ¸āĻ°ā§āĻŦāĻ¨āĻŋāĻŽā§āĻ¨ āĻāĻžāĻāĻ¤āĻŋāĨ¤ āĻ¸āĻžāĻ¤ā§āĻ¤āĻžāĻ°ā§āĻ° āĻāĻŽāĻ˛ā§ āĻāĻāĻž āĻĻāĻžāĻāĻĄāĻŧāĻžāĻ¯āĻŧ ā§¨ā§Š āĻŽāĻŋāĻ˛āĻŋāĻ¯āĻŧāĻ¨ āĻĄāĻ˛āĻžāĻ°ā§āĨ¤ āĻāĻ°āĻļāĻžāĻĻā§āĻ° āĻļā§āĻˇ āĻŦāĻāĻ°ā§ ā§§ā§¯ā§¯ā§Ļ-ā§¯ā§§ āĻ āĻāĻāĻž āĻŦāĻšā§āĻā§āĻŖā§ āĻŦā§āĻĻā§āĻ§āĻŋ āĻĒā§āĻ¯āĻŧā§ āĻĻāĻžāĻāĻĄāĻŧāĻžāĻ¯āĻŧ ā§§ā§Ŧā§ āĻŽāĻŋāĻ˛āĻŋāĻ¯āĻŧāĻ¨ āĻĄāĻ˛āĻžāĻ°āĨ¤ āĻāĻāĻ¨ āĻāĻ¤ āĻāĻžāĻ¨ā§āĻ¨? ā§Ģ.ā§Ģā§ā§¯ āĻŦāĻŋāĻ˛āĻŋāĻ¯āĻŧāĻ¨ āĻĄāĻ˛āĻžāĻ°āĨ¤ āĻŽāĻŋāĻ˛āĻŋāĻ¯āĻŧāĻ¨ āĻ¨āĻžāĻ°ā§ āĻāĻžāĻ āĻŦāĻŋāĻ˛āĻŋāĻ¯āĻŧāĻ¨āĨ¤â
Apart from the trade gap, Hindutva India plunders Bangladesh through border smuggling of trade goods, phensedyl, and hundi network of illegal transfer of money. It makes 32,000 crore taka (US$3.8b) a year from its businesses and its tens of thousands of people working in Bangladesh.9 Recently an Indian company got a construction agreement from Hasina worth billions of dollars, as another blacklisted Indian company got the contract for printing millions of school textbooks worth over a billion and yet another blacklisted company, Madras Security Printers, got the 120 crore taka contract to supply 1.5 million polycarbonate driving license cards from Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA), which cancelled its original agreement with a company of its own country, Tiger IT Bangladesh Ltd, and awarded the âsuitablyâ revised contract to the Indian MSP without calling any tender.10 These are the examples of Hasinaâs treachery to (Muslim) Bangladesh and loyalty to her Hindu India.
Bangladesh Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) at a press conference said, âBangladesh has become the third largest remittance source of India, with around $3.7 billion dollar sent in 2013. And a portal of professionals, the Silicon India, has predicted that the remittance from Bangladesh to India would continue to increase in the coming years. Silicon India revealed [that] in 2013 there [were] 500,000 Indians staying illegally in Bangladesh and sending USD 3,716 million (3.7 billion.ââ11 According to CPD, each year as much as $5 b (ā§Ģā§Ļā§Ļ āĻā§āĻāĻŋ āĻĄāĻ˛āĻžāĻ°) slips away to India alone leaving millions of local Bangladeshis without a job and without food, clothing, and housing (let alone health and education). In view of the figures going up under Hasinaâs vassalage allegiance to her feudal and manorial lord India, Bangladesh is the 4th largest remittance source for India, which remitted, by illegal means, $10b (1000 crore dollar) from Bangladesh in 2017 with at least one million (10 lakh) Indians working in Bangladesh.12
Sheikh Hasina thinks it is India that made her what she is, as Lhendup Dorji also once thought he was. But, in fact, it is Bangladesh that made her so. If she has any understanding of the interest of the people of Bangladesh, she should know that:
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Sheikh Hasina should be ashamed of her deplorable failures. She is shamelessly out of touch with the hard and bitter reality of her overpopulated country, which she does not mind putting at the hegemonic mercy of her master India. There is a widely prevalent poverty and penury all across the country, including the miserable situation of hundreds of thousands of low-grade Bangladeshi workers and menial laborers abroadâboth male and female and that of many drowning in the Mediterranean while trying to reach the European shores to earn the bare minimum for a living not possible in the deeply stratified Bangladesh.14
In other words, all this slavish worship of India and servile homage to India are performed by Hasina not only to perpetuate her dictatorship but also at the dire expense of the millions of unemployed (let alone the underemployed) local Bangladeshi youth in their own country.15 In Hasinaâs more phony, pompous, and corruption-filled than stable, lasting and harmonious development, there were 98000 applicants, for example, against 9 third class posts advertised under the directorate of drug control.16 Similarly, there were more than 6, 00, 000 (6 lakh) applicants, most of whom had an honors or masterâs degree (Year 15 or 16), out of whom only 6000 passed the test for the advertised primary school (Year 1-5) teacher positions for which the required educational qualification was only Year 10 Secondary School Certificate (SSC). The number of the jobless is estimated from the most crooked and conservative figure of 27, 00, 000 (27 lakh in 2018) to the more likely and realistic figure of 4, 66, 00, 000 (4 crore 66 lakh) to 4, 82, 00, 000 (4 crore 82 lakh) or even higher forcing 78 lakh (780,000) people to leave the country and work hard abroad.17
Nearly 35,000 Indians (and also thousands from Sri Lanka) hold high positions in Bangladesh RMG factories remitting around $2.36 billion home, not to speak of those working at the lower level.18 According to one estimate, there are over 5 lakhs (5, 00, 000) of Indians working in Bangladesh siphoning about $3.76b (30,000 crore taka) in 2013-14 alone, the amount going far up now in 2018: âāĻŦāĻžāĻāĻ˛āĻžāĻĻā§āĻļā§ ā§Ģ āĻ˛āĻā§āĻˇā§āĻ° āĻāĻĒāĻ°ā§ āĻāĻžāĻ°āĻ¤ā§āĻ¯āĻŧ, āĻāĻ¯āĻŧā§āĻ āĻšāĻžāĻāĻžāĻ° āĻļā§āĻ°ā§āĻ˛āĻā§āĻāĻžāĻ¨, āĻāĻžāĻāĻ¨āĻŋāĻ āĻāĻžāĻ āĻāĻ°āĻā§āĻ¨ āĻāĻā§āĻ āĻŦā§āĻ¤āĻ¨ā§, āĻāĻā§āĻ āĻĒāĻĻā§āĨ¤ āĻĒā§āĻ°āĻ¤āĻŋ āĻŦāĻāĻ° āĻļā§āĻ§ā§ āĻāĻžāĻ°āĻ¤ā§āĻ¯āĻŧāĻ°āĻž āĻŦāĻžāĻāĻ˛āĻžāĻĻā§āĻļ āĻĨā§āĻā§ āĻ¨āĻŋāĻ¯āĻŧā§ āĻ¯āĻžāĻ¯āĻŧ āĻāĻŽāĻĒāĻā§āĻˇā§ ā§Šā§¨ āĻšāĻžāĻāĻžāĻ° āĻā§āĻāĻŋ āĻāĻžāĻāĻžāĨ¤ âāĻ¸āĻŋāĻ˛āĻŋāĻāĻ¨ āĻāĻ¨ā§āĻĄāĻŋāĻ¯āĻŧāĻž āĻ¨āĻŋāĻāĻâāĻ° āĻ¤āĻĨā§āĻ¯ āĻ āĻ¨ā§āĻ¯āĻžāĻ¯āĻŧā§ ā§¨ā§Ļā§§ā§Š-ā§§ā§Ē āĻ āĻ°ā§āĻĨāĻŦāĻāĻ°ā§ āĻāĻžāĻ°āĻ¤ āĻŦā§āĻĻā§āĻļāĻŋāĻ āĻŽā§āĻĻā§āĻ°āĻž āĻāĻ¯āĻŧ āĻāĻ°ā§āĻā§ ā§ā§Ļ āĻŦāĻŋāĻ˛āĻŋāĻ¯āĻŧāĻ¨ āĻĄāĻ˛āĻžāĻ°āĨ¤ āĻāĻ° āĻŽāĻ§ā§āĻ¯ā§ āĻŦāĻžāĻāĻ˛āĻžāĻĻā§āĻļ āĻĨā§āĻā§ āĻāĻ¯āĻŧ āĻāĻ°ā§āĻā§ ā§Ē āĻŦāĻŋāĻ˛āĻŋāĻ¯āĻŧāĻ¨ āĻĄāĻ˛āĻžāĻ°āĨ¤āĻāĻžāĻ°āĻ¤ āĻ¸āĻžāĻ°āĻž āĻĒā§āĻĨāĻŋāĻŦā§ āĻĨā§āĻā§ āĻ¯ā§ āĻĒāĻ°āĻŋāĻŽāĻžāĻŖ āĻŦā§āĻĻā§āĻļāĻŋāĻ āĻŽā§āĻĻā§āĻ°āĻž āĻāĻ¯āĻŧ āĻāĻ°ā§, āĻŦāĻžāĻāĻ˛āĻžāĻĻā§āĻļ āĻ¤āĻžāĻ° āĻŽāĻ§ā§āĻ¯ā§ āĻĒāĻā§āĻāĻŽāĨ¤â19
âEvery year, more than $4 billion outward remittance is being sent from Bangladesh to India,â said a NBR official, seeking anonymity. âSo, you can understand how much revenue the government is losing due to tax evasion perpetrated by Indian workers.”20 Only five of the hundreds of examples are: (1) that more than two hundred so-called Indian nurses take away nearly 50 crore ($6m) annually; (2) that the Hasina regime purchases electric meters from its Indian masters at a prepaid amount of double the price; (3) that it is purchasing electricity worth 42,000 crore taka ($5b) over a period of 15 years; (4) that it is going to purchase electricity from the Adani Group of India at a prohibitively extra cost of 70,000 crore taka (nearly $8b) over a period of 25 years; and (5) that the entire jute industry is under a serious commercial threat from India.21
Concerning Hasinaâs bad-intentioned ballgame of electricity bought from her master savior and protector India, Benzamin Mendez, a research-scholar and former university professor, gives a true picture of Bangladesh under Hasina: the countryâs sorry state of affairs that would include, among other despairs and despondencies, its dismal state of democracy, dirty election engineering, and rampant corruption at all levels. Above all, Mendez provides a convincing picture of the present administration’s wholesale corruption and dependence on India letting the latter have a complete control of Bangladesh, especially in its power sector that is âa crucial element of bilateral cooperation.â In his article, âBangladesh: The story of Sheikh Hasinaâs rampant corruption,â Mendez writes about Hasinaâs willing dependence on India (English poet Coleridgeâs âwilling suspension of disbeliefâ about the supernatural in poetry?) in sensitive, yet incontrovertible details, claiming that the âQuick Rental Power Plant,â passed with indemnity in the parliament, was âactually the master plan of Sheikh Hasinaâ to swindle off âbillions of dollars from the national exchequer [âĻ] She had held the entire nation a hostage into the grips of business syndicate and India [âĻ] In Bangladesh, a sheer looting is going on especially in the last decade.â22
âThis is just a tip of the iceberg!,â Mendez continues. âSheikh Hasina has been looting wealth of Bangladesh more notoriously than Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines. She had renewed her second consecutive term with the active help of India in 2014 and now again she has begun the same game plan. For India it is essential to keep Sheikh Hasina in power as she has been the most faithful individual who has been compromising the national interest of Bangladesh for safeguarding Indian interest. For such reason, India being the largest democracy in the world remains totally silent on the continuous violation of human rights and constitutional rights of the people of Bangladesh.â23
In fact, it has been learnt from a reliable source that, following the Pilkhana BDR massacre, sentiments among the Armed Forces became a great concern for the Hasina regime. In order to prevent a repeat of what happened to her family in August 1975, Hasina started relying on India’s spy agency, RAW. In confirmation of what has been said in my earlier book (citing journalist Jessica Fox on the regime-sponsored and RAW-trained Squad/Crusader 100),24 the said source confided that the regime assigned about 100 BCL leaders trained by RAW in India the job of abducting the targeted political and human rights activists. When these Indian-trained BCL leaders began to ambush and abduct opposition politicians, even the police looked the other way or covered up their inhuman crimes perhaps at the order from the higher-ups. As the situation progressed, the RAW wing of the Indian embassy in Dhaka became more and more powerful in making many important security decisions about promotion, transfer, and termination of important service professionals and about the disappearance of the targets, sometimes without even caring to inform the government.
Yet in another article, âBangladesh: Politics of revenge and vengeance,â Mendez provides further details of Indianization (or rather Sikkimization) of Bangladesh and its politics saying:
Meanwhile, taking full advantage of Bangladeshâs fluid political situation and Sheikh Hasinaâs desperation of remaining in power indefinitely, radical Hinduist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is pushing and lobbying with the Awami League [âĻ] for earmarking a minimum of 30 and a maximum of 50 parliamentary seats where nominees belonging to the minority community could contest elections to the Jatiya Sangshad, scheduled to be held in December.25
âMeanwhile,â Mendez goes on, âRSS has already pressed few demands with Sheikh Hasina and according to reliable sources, an agreement has been signed between RSS leadership and the Bangladeshi dictator, where Bangladesh Awami League has fundamentally agreed to implement the following demands should it get a third consecutive term.â The demands include: (1) selecting a Hindu as the next President of Bangladesh; (2) Hindus to be given several key ministries; (3) a separate ministry named Ministry of Religious Minority Affairs; (4) several Hindu judges to be appointed to the High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court; (5) more Hindu officers in the Bangladesh Armed Forces; (6) Hindus to be sent as the heads of Bangladesh missions in certain countries and the number of Hindu diplomats in the Bangladesh missions to be increased; and (7) Hindu properties grabbed through the Enemy Property Act and the Vested Property Act to be immediately returned to the Hindus within 180 days of Hasinaâs consecutive third term.26
Indianization of Bangladesh continues as unabated as Hasinaâs widespread corruption and her complete control of the freedom of the opposition. It is due to Indian intrusion in Bangladeshâs share market that thousands of crores of Chinese investment are about to be halted or have already been halted.27 What is even worse, the submission of the Hasina regime to India is so alarmingly clear that not only the foreign, mainly Indian nationals working illegally in Bangladesh go unchecked, there being no data available on them, but also that a tremendously high (and eye-brow raising) number of Bangladeshi Hindu minority (8%), in an increasing Hinduization of Bangladesh, hold high level administrative and executive positions in the country as if there are no qualified Muslims available in the Muslim majority country to be entrusted with those positions.28 Many Indian nationals enter the Bangladesh police service by clandestine means connived at by the regime and its canine administration.29 By contrast, despite the fact that 14% of Indian population are Muslims, only 3% of them are lucky to be in the jobs.30 A daily Naya Diganta Sub-Editorial and the bloggers, Kai Kaus and Dr Bhattacharya, provide a list of inimical Indian conspiracies aimed at the economic looting of Bangladesh (see Appendix).
In view of the current disastrous political situation of Bangladesh, especially in terms of Indian strangulation of it, R Chowdhury of the USA gives a brilliant summary of the events and affairs that developed in Bangladesh through the present regimeâs dire distortions and dispensations when (in an email post of 3 February 2016) he says:
In my dull brain and limited comprehension, what I understand is that we all are deeply frustrated at the ongoing political process that completely destroyed the very fabric of democracy, freedom, and rule of law in the country. The second is how to bail the country out of this dangerous situation by ousting the fascist suckers. While we seem to differ how the second part can be achieved, we also acknowledge the impediments on the way. The administration usually follows the political leadership. Even the political appointees, except the diehards [âĻ], will toe the line once there is change on top, including a CTG. I am sure, if there was any other government on January 5, 2014, CEC Kazi Rakibuddin (I know this “yes sir” typical bureaucrat) would have obliged to certify 40% turnout even though there was only 5-8% voters, that too in less than half of the constituencies. That includes the scenario in the military, police, RAB etc, except the diehard Gopalis [stubbornly loyal members of the police/RAB coming from Hasinaâs home district Gopalganj and other selected places]31 or Chatro League [notorious student wing of her Awami League].32
We may love India, we may hate India, but it is a FACTOR. It surrounds us, it controls our rivers, it is stronger than Bangladesh in virtually all respects. On top of that, it has installed its protegee in Bangladesh to fulfil its agenda. India masterminded the Zia assassination (according to most analysis), but we couldn’t do anything. India orchestrated the 1/11, we couldn’t do anything. India conspired for Moinuddin-Fakhruddin for Plus 1 (Hasina) and a digital election for its chosen party to win in December 2008, we couldn’t do anything. India’s involvement was glaringly evident in the BDR massacre in 2009, JI and Hefazat killings in 2013 and in many other anti-state activities, we couldn’t do anything.33 On January 5, 2014, India single-handedly staged the farcical tamasha/āĻ¤āĻžāĻŽāĻžāĻ¸āĻžin Bangladesh, we couldn’t do anything. Nor the rest of the world came forward to fix it.
There is more. India took away S Talpatti, we couldn’t do anything. It siphons $4 billion annually from Bangladesh, we can’t do anything. It regularly target-shoots our citizens at the border (surprisingly, our very own BDR chiefs term them criminals!), we can’t do anything. It deprives Bangladesh of its share of 52 river waters, we can’t do anything. We are made to consume all the rubbish from across the border but they would not accommodate any of our products, we can’t do anything. India opposes us on the Rohingya issue, yet we gleefully welcome its president (so what he is a former? He sits while the much older Bangladeshi former president feels happy to have a standing space behind). Yet, India is our Greatest Friend!
That the opposition is crippled and crushed is also an Indian design and we can hardly do anything. A 1971 like “Operation Searchlight” is in force, who can do what? In such a scenario, is it difficult to foresee what to expect? We may not face another 2013, but we surely will have another 2014 (January 5), with or without BNP. Whether we like Plus [Hasina] or Minus [Khaleda], it is decided. The public do not matter. An ever optimist always says, the people will finally be victorious. But, he never gives a timeline.
Playwright Ariful Haque, one of those who write in a most succinct, comprehensive, and historically-contextualized manner, describe Hasinaâs digital fascism and capitulation to India in the footsteps of the traitors Mir Jafar and Ghaseti Begum (who betrayed Nawab Sirajuddowla of independent Bengal), Mir Sadiq (who betrayed Tipu Sultan of independent Mysore), Munshi Govinda Das (who betrayed the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar in Delhi), and Al-Idrus (who helped the independent Hyderabad to fall). One of the most beautiful, almost biblical, and inspirational articles by him, while being saturated with a sense of frustrations and disappointments at those tragic Muslim defeats in the subcontinent telescoping and foreshadowing the Awami Hasinaâs slavish servility and puppeteering to Indian hegemony, ends, however, with a note of hope at the poetic call to wake up and stand up only to strike back, as hard as possible:
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*Q M Jalal Khan is author of Bangladesh: Political and Literary Reflections on a Divided Country (Peter Lang, 2018) and Bangladesh Divided: Political and Literary Reflections on a Corrupt Police and Prison State (Peter Lang, 2019), in addition to numerous other publications on literature and culture. After disengaging from many years of full-time teaching abroad, American-educated Dr Khan is currently on the adjunct faculty at an institution of higher learning in North America. His recent work, “Sheikh Hasina’s Brutal BNP-Phobia and Her Scandalous ‘Midnight’ Power Grab Through Vampire Vote Dacoity and Villainous “S/Election” Rigging With an All-Time High Record of Humongous White-Collar Corruption” has appeared in Sabria Chowdhury Balland (ed), Bangladesh: A Suffering People Under State Terrorism (Peter Lang, 2020). The present article is the fourth of the eight-part series on Indian control of Bangladesh.
Notes:
1.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%E2%80%932014_Satkhira_clashes
2. onlinebangla.com.bd/post/11690/āĻĒāĻžāĻ ā§āĻ¯āĻĒā§āĻ¸ā§āĻ¤āĻā§-āĻ¸ā§āĻāĻŋāĻ¤ā§āĻ°-āĻ¸ā§āĻ¨-āĻĨāĻžāĻāĻ˛ā§āĻ-āĻāĻžāĻ¸āĻžāĻ¨ā§āĻ°-āĻā§āĻŦāĻ¨ā§-āĻŦāĻžāĻĻ
3. See Sharmin Ahmad, Tajuddin Ahmad: Neta O Pita (2014). Also, http://southasiajournal.net/was-sheikh-mujib-for-an-unbroken-pakistan-or-independent-bangladesh-sensational-revelation-about-mujib-in-pakistan-in-1971-%EF%BB%BF/. Also, see my Bangladesh: Political and Literary Reflections on a Divided Country, Chapter 14: When Bangladesh Is Divided Over Its National Anthem (A Tagore Song): A Politico-Literary Perspective, pp. 465-492.
4. As Zoglul Husain of the UK recounts: âāĻŽā§āĻāĻŋāĻŦāĻā§ āĻŦāĻā§āĻāĻļāĻ¤ā§āĻ°ā§ āĻāĻĒāĻžāĻ§āĻŋ āĻĻāĻŋāĻ¯āĻŧā§āĻāĻŋāĻ˛ā§āĻ¨ āĻŽāĻ¤āĻŋāĻ¯āĻŧāĻžāĨ¤ āĻ¤āĻŋāĻ¨āĻŋ āĻŽā§āĻāĻŋāĻŦā§āĻ° āĻāĻžāĻŽāĻĄāĻŧāĻž āĻĻāĻŋāĻ¯āĻŧā§ āĻĄā§āĻāĻĄā§āĻāĻŋ āĻŦāĻžāĻāĻžāĻ¤ā§ āĻā§āĻ¯āĻŧā§āĻāĻŋāĻ˛ā§āĻ¨ āĻāĻŦāĻ āĻ¤āĻžāĻ° āĻāĻžāĻŽāĻĄāĻŧāĻž āĻĻāĻŋāĻ¯āĻŧā§ āĻā§āĻ¤āĻž āĻŦāĻžāĻ¨āĻžāĻ¤ā§ āĻā§āĻ¯āĻŧā§āĻāĻŋāĻ˛ā§āĻ¨āĨ¤ āĻŽā§āĻāĻŋāĻŦāĻā§ āĻšāĻ¤ā§āĻ¯āĻžāĻ° āĻĒāĻ° āĻāĻ¨ā§ āĻ¸ā§āĻ¨āĻž āĻā§āĻ¯āĻžāĻāĻā§ āĻāĻ ā§ āĻāĻ˛ā§āĻ˛āĻžāĻ¸ā§ āĻ āĻ¸ā§āĻ¤ā§āĻ° āĻāĻāĻāĻŋāĻ¯āĻŧā§ āĻā§āĻ˛āĻŋ āĻā§āĻĄāĻŧā§ āĻāĻ¨āĻ¨ā§āĻĻ āĻāĻ°ā§āĻ¨āĨ¤ āĻŽā§āĻāĻŋāĻŦ āĻāĻŽāĻ˛ā§āĻ° āĻ¸ā§āĻ¨āĻžāĻĒā§āĻ°āĻ§āĻžāĻ¨ āĻļāĻĢāĻŋāĻāĻ˛ā§āĻ˛āĻžāĻš āĻŦāĻ˛ā§āĻ¨, āĻļā§āĻ āĻŽā§āĻāĻŋāĻŦ āĻšāĻ¤ā§āĻ¯āĻžāĻ° āĻ¸āĻžāĻĨā§ āĻšāĻžāĻ¸āĻŋāĻ¨āĻžāĻ° āĻĢā§āĻĢāĻžāĻ¤ā§ āĻāĻžāĻ āĻļā§āĻ āĻ¸ā§āĻ˛āĻŋāĻŽāĻ āĻāĻĄāĻŧāĻŋāĻ¤ āĻāĻā§āĨ¤ āĻļāĻžāĻšāĻ°āĻŋāĻ¯āĻŧāĻžāĻ° āĻāĻŦāĻŋāĻ° āĻ˛ā§āĻā§āĻ¨, āĻŽā§āĻāĻŋāĻŦ āĻāĻ° āĻŦāĻā§āĻāĻŦāĻ¨ā§āĻ§ā§ āĻ¨āĻ¯āĻŧ, āĻāĻāĻ¨ āĻĨā§āĻā§ āĻŽā§āĻāĻŋāĻŦ āĻāĻ¨āĻļāĻ¤ā§āĻ°ā§āĨ¤ āĻāĻ°ā§āĻ¨ā§āĻ˛ āĻ¤āĻžāĻšā§āĻ° āĻŦāĻ˛ā§āĻ¨, āĻŽā§āĻāĻŋāĻŦā§āĻ° āĻ˛āĻžāĻļ āĻŦāĻā§āĻā§āĻĒāĻ¸āĻžāĻāĻ°ā§ āĻ¨āĻŋāĻā§āĻˇā§āĻĒ āĻāĻ°āĻ¤ā§, āĻāĻžāĻ°āĻŖ āĻŦāĻžāĻāĻ˛āĻžāĻĻā§āĻļā§ āĻ¤āĻžāĻ° āĻāĻŦāĻ° āĻšāĻ˛ā§ āĻ’āĻ˛ā§āĻ āĻ¤āĻž āĻŽāĻžāĻāĻžāĻ° āĻŦāĻžāĻ¨āĻžāĻŦā§āĨ¤ āĻŽā§āĻ¨āĻ¨ā§āĻ° āĻĻāĻ˛ āĻŦāĻŋāĻŦā§āĻ¤āĻŋ āĻĻā§āĻ¯āĻŧ, âāĻŽā§āĻāĻŋāĻŦā§āĻ° āĻŽā§āĻ¤ā§āĻ¯ā§āĻ¤ā§ āĻāĻ¨āĻāĻŖ āĻāĻ˛ā§āĻ˛āĻ¸āĻŋāĻ¤āĨ¤ āĻ¤āĻžāĻ° āĻŽā§āĻ¤ā§āĻ¯ā§ āĻāĻžāĻ°ā§ āĻŽāĻ¨ā§ āĻ¸āĻžāĻŽāĻžāĻ¨ā§āĻ¯āĻ¤āĻŽ āĻ¸āĻŽāĻŦā§āĻĻāĻ¨āĻž āĻŦāĻž āĻĻā§āĻāĻ āĻāĻžāĻāĻžāĻ¯āĻŧāĻ¨āĻŋ, āĻāĻžāĻāĻžāĻ¤ā§ āĻĒāĻžāĻ°ā§ āĻ¨āĻžāĨ¤â ā§§ā§Ģ āĻāĻāĻ¸ā§āĻ ā§§ā§¯ā§ā§Ģ āĻ¸ā§āĻ¨āĻž āĻ¸āĻĻāĻ¸ā§āĻ¯āĻ°āĻž āĻŽā§āĻāĻŋāĻŦā§āĻ° āĻŦāĻžāĻĄāĻŧāĻŋāĻ¤ā§ āĻāĻ¸āĻ˛ā§ āĻŽā§āĻāĻŋāĻŦ āĻ¸ā§āĻ¨āĻžāĻĒā§āĻ°āĻ§āĻžāĻ¨ āĻļāĻĢāĻŋāĻāĻ˛ā§āĻ˛āĻžāĻš, āĻ°āĻā§āĻˇā§āĻŦāĻžāĻšāĻŋāĻ¨ā§āĻ° āĻ°āĻžāĻāĻ¨ā§āĻ¤āĻŋāĻ āĻĒā§āĻ°āĻ§āĻžāĻ¨ āĻ¤ā§āĻĢāĻžāĻ¯āĻŧā§āĻ˛ āĻ¸āĻš āĻ āĻ¨ā§āĻāĻā§āĻ āĻĢā§āĻ¨ āĻāĻ°ā§āĻāĻŋāĻ˛ā§āĻ¨, āĻā§āĻ āĻāĻ¸ā§āĻ¨ āĻ¨āĻŋ, āĻāĻ°ā§āĻ¨ā§āĻ˛ āĻāĻžāĻŽāĻŋāĻ˛ āĻāĻžāĻĄāĻŧāĻž, āĻāĻ°ā§āĻ¨ā§āĻ˛ āĻāĻžāĻŽāĻŋāĻ˛ āĻ¨āĻŋāĻšāĻ¤ āĻšāĻ¨āĨ¤ āĻļāĻĢāĻŋāĻāĻ˛ā§āĻ˛āĻžāĻš āĻŽā§āĻāĻŋāĻŦāĻā§ āĻŦāĻ˛ā§āĻāĻŋāĻ˛ā§āĻ¨ āĻĒāĻžāĻāĻŋāĻ˛ āĻāĻĒāĻāĻŋāĻ¯āĻŧā§ āĻĒāĻžāĻ˛āĻŋāĻ¯āĻŧā§ āĻ¯ā§āĻ¤ā§āĨ¤ ā§§ā§Ģ āĻāĻāĻ¸ā§āĻ ā§§ā§¯ā§ā§Ģ āĻ¸ā§āĻ¨āĻž-āĻāĻ¨āĻ¤āĻžāĻ° āĻ āĻā§āĻ¯ā§āĻ¤ā§āĻĨāĻžāĻ¨ā§ āĻŽā§āĻāĻŋāĻŦā§āĻ° āĻŽā§āĻ¤ā§āĻ¯ā§ āĻšāĻ˛ā§ āĻ¸ā§āĻĻāĻŋāĻ¨ āĻ¤āĻžāĻ° āĻŽāĻžāĻāĻĢāĻŋāĻ°āĻžāĻ¤ āĻāĻžāĻŽāĻ¨āĻž āĻāĻ°āĻžāĻ° āĻāĻ¨ā§āĻ¯ āĻ˛ā§āĻ āĻā§āĻāĻā§ āĻĒāĻžāĻāĻ¯āĻŧāĻž āĻ¯āĻžāĻ¯āĻŧ āĻ¨āĻŋāĨ¤ āĻ¤āĻžāĻ° āĻ¸ā§āĻĒā§āĻāĻžāĻ° āĻāĻŦā§āĻĻā§āĻ˛ āĻŽāĻžāĻ˛ā§āĻ āĻāĻāĻŋāĻ˛ āĻ˛āĻ¨ā§āĻĄāĻ¨ā§ āĻŦāĻ˛ā§āĻ¨, āĻĻā§āĻļ āĻĢā§āĻ°āĻžāĻāĻ¨ā§āĻ° āĻšāĻžāĻ¤ āĻĨā§āĻā§ āĻŽā§āĻā§āĻ¤ āĻšāĻ¯āĻŧā§āĻā§āĨ¤ āĻ¸āĻžāĻŦā§āĻ āĻ¸ā§āĻĒā§āĻāĻžāĻ° āĻ āĻ¸āĻžāĻŦā§āĻ āĻŦāĻŋāĻĻā§āĻļ āĻŽāĻ¨ā§āĻ¤ā§āĻ°ā§ āĻšā§āĻŽāĻžāĻ¯āĻŧā§āĻ¨ āĻ°āĻļāĻŋāĻĻ āĻā§āĻ§ā§āĻ°ā§ āĻĒāĻ°āĻŦāĻ°ā§āĻ¤ā§āĻ¤ā§ āĻŦāĻ˛ā§āĻ¨, āĻāĻāĻļāĻŦāĻžāĻ° āĻŽā§āĻāĻŋāĻŦā§āĻ° āĻĢāĻžāĻāĻ¸ā§ āĻšāĻ˛ā§āĻ āĻ¤āĻžāĻ° āĻĒāĻžāĻĒ āĻŽā§āĻā§āĻ¤āĻŋ āĻšāĻŦā§āĻ¨āĻžāĨ¤ āĻ¤āĻžāĻ° āĻŽā§āĻ¤āĻĻā§āĻš āĻ¯āĻāĻ¨ āĻ¸āĻŋāĻāĻĄāĻŧāĻŋāĻ¤ā§ āĻĒāĻĄāĻŧā§āĻāĻŋāĻ˛ āĻ¤āĻāĻ¨ āĻĢāĻ¨āĻŋ āĻā§āĻˇāĻŖ āĻŽāĻā§āĻŽāĻĻāĻžāĻ° āĻ āĻŽāĻ¨āĻ°āĻā§āĻāĻ¨ āĻ§āĻ° āĻ¸āĻš āĻ¤āĻžāĻ° ā§§ā§Ž āĻŽāĻ¨ā§āĻ¤ā§āĻ°ā§āĻ° ā§§ā§Ļ āĻāĻ¨ āĻāĻŦāĻ ā§¯ āĻāĻ¨ āĻĒā§āĻ°āĻ¤āĻŋ-āĻŽāĻ¨ā§āĻ¤ā§āĻ°ā§āĻ° ā§Ž āĻāĻ¨ āĻŽā§āĻļāĻ¤āĻžāĻ āĻŽāĻ¨ā§āĻ¤ā§āĻ°ā§ āĻ¸āĻāĻžāĻ¯āĻŧ āĻ¯ā§āĻ āĻĻā§āĻ¨, āĻŦāĻžāĻāĻŋāĻĻā§āĻ° āĻŽāĻ§ā§āĻ¯ā§ āĻŽā§āĻāĻŋāĻŦā§āĻ° ā§Ē āĻŽāĻ¨ā§āĻ¤ā§āĻ°ā§āĻĻā§āĻ° āĻāĻžāĻ°āĻžāĻāĻžāĻ°ā§ āĻĒāĻžāĻ āĻžāĻ¨ā§ āĻšāĻ¯āĻŧ, ā§Š āĻāĻ¨ āĻŦāĻŋāĻĻā§āĻļā§ āĻāĻŋāĻ˛ā§āĻ¨āĨ¤ āĻļāĻĒāĻĨ āĻ āĻ¨ā§āĻˇā§āĻ āĻžāĻ¨ āĻĒāĻ°āĻŋāĻāĻžāĻ˛āĻ¨āĻž āĻāĻ°ā§āĻ¨ āĻāĻāĻ āĻāĻŋ āĻāĻŽāĻžāĻŽāĨ¤ āĻŽā§āĻāĻŋāĻŦā§āĻ° āĻāĻžāĻ¨āĻžāĻāĻžāĻ¯āĻŧ āĻāĻĒāĻ¸ā§āĻĨāĻŋāĻ¤ āĻāĻŋāĻ˛ā§āĻ¨ ā§§ā§Ž āĻāĻ¨, āĻšāĻžāĻ¸āĻŋāĻ¨āĻž āĻĒāĻ°ā§ āĻŦāĻŋāĻŦāĻŋāĻ¸āĻŋāĻā§ āĻŦāĻ˛ā§āĻ¨, ā§§ā§Ļ-ā§§ā§Ž āĻāĻ¨āĨ¤ āĻāĻ¤ā§āĻ¯āĻžāĻĻāĻŋ, āĻāĻ¤ā§āĻ¯āĻžāĻĻāĻŋāĨ¤â
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19. www.amadershomoy.com/bn/2018/03/29/500233.htm; āĻāĻžāĻāĻ°āĻŋāĻ¤ā§ āĻ āĻŦā§āĻ§ āĻŦāĻŋāĻĻā§āĻļā§āĻ° āĻ¸āĻāĻā§āĻ¯āĻž āĻŦāĻžāĻĄāĻŧāĻā§āĻ: www.breakingnews.com.bd/bangla/national/62261.online; https://www.bb.org.bd/econdata/wageremitance.php; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remittances_to_India
21. www.dailynayadiganta.com/education/334177/ā§Š-āĻ˛āĻžāĻ-āĻŦāĻāĻ°ā§-āĻ¨āĻŋāĻ¯āĻŧā§-āĻ¯āĻžāĻā§āĻā§-ā§Ēā§Ļ-āĻšāĻžāĻāĻžāĻ°-āĻā§āĻāĻŋ-āĻāĻžāĻāĻž; āĻĻā§āĻ āĻļāĻ¤āĻžāĻ§āĻŋāĻ āĻŦāĻŋāĻĻā§āĻļā§ āĻ¨āĻžāĻ°ā§āĻ¸ āĻŦāĻāĻ°ā§ āĻ¨āĻŋāĻ¯āĻŧā§ āĻ¯āĻžāĻā§āĻā§ āĻ āĻ°ā§āĻ§āĻļāĻ¤ āĻā§āĻāĻŋ āĻāĻžāĻāĻž: www.dailynayadiganta.com/detail/news/297078; āĻŦā§āĻĻā§āĻ¯ā§āĻ¤āĻŋāĻ āĻŽāĻŋāĻāĻžāĻ° āĻā§āĻ°āĻ¯āĻŧā§āĻ˛ā§āĻāĻĒāĻžāĻ:https://www.facebook.com/nasir.ahmed.10888938/videos/pcb.1519327081526573/1519326871526594/?type=3&theater;www.banglatribune.com/business/news/311265/āĻāĻžāĻ°āĻ¤-āĻāĻ¨ā§āĻāĻŋ-āĻĄāĻžāĻŽā§āĻĒāĻŋāĻ-āĻĄāĻŋāĻāĻāĻŋ-āĻāĻ°ā§āĻĒ-āĻāĻ°āĻžāĻ¯āĻŧ-āĻĒāĻžāĻāĻāĻžāĻ¤ā§-āĻŦāĻŋāĻ°ā§āĻĒ; https://thejoban.com/article/2018/04/04/āĻĒāĻžāĻāĻĒāĻŖā§āĻ¯āĻā§-āĻāĻŋāĻ°ā§-āĻŦāĻžāĻāĻ˛āĻžāĻĻā§āĻļā§/; āĻāĻžāĻ°āĻ¤ āĻĨā§āĻā§ ā§Ēā§¨ āĻšāĻžāĻāĻžāĻ° āĻā§āĻāĻŋ āĻāĻžāĻāĻžāĻ° āĻŦāĻŋāĻĻā§āĻ¯ā§āĻ¤ā§ āĻāĻŋāĻ¨āĻā§ āĻ¸āĻ°āĻāĻžāĻ°: www.ittefaq.com.bd/national/2018/04/05/152833.htm; āĻāĻžāĻ°āĻ¤ā§āĻ° āĻāĻĻāĻžāĻ¨āĻŋ āĻā§āĻ°ā§āĻĒā§āĻ° āĻāĻžāĻ āĻĨā§āĻā§ āĻŦāĻŋāĻĻā§āĻ¯ā§ā§ āĻāĻŋāĻ¨āĻ¤ā§ āĻŦāĻžāĻāĻ˛āĻžāĻĻā§āĻļāĻā§ ā§¨ā§Ģ āĻŦāĻāĻ°ā§ ā§ā§Ļ āĻšāĻžāĻāĻžāĻ° āĻā§āĻāĻŋ āĻāĻžāĻāĻž āĻŦāĻžāĻĄāĻŧāĻ¤āĻŋ āĻŦā§āĻ¯āĻ¯āĻŧ āĻāĻ°āĻ¤ā§ āĻšāĻŦā§āĨ¤ āĻĻā§āĻļā§āĻ¯āĻŧ āĻā§āĻĒāĻžāĻĻāĻāĻĻā§āĻ° āĻā§āĻ¯āĻŧā§ āĻāĻĻāĻžāĻ¨āĻŋāĻ° āĻŦāĻŋāĻĻā§āĻ¯ā§āĻ¤ā§āĻ° āĻĻāĻžāĻŽ āĻŦā§āĻļāĻŋ, āĻ āĻāĻžāĻ°āĻŖā§āĻ āĻŦāĻžāĻĄāĻŧāĻ¤āĻŋ āĻāĻ°āĻ āĻšāĻŦā§āĨ¤āĻāĻžāĻ°āĻ¤ā§āĻ° āĻŦā§āĻšā§ āĻāĻ āĻļāĻŋāĻ˛ā§āĻĒāĻā§āĻˇā§āĻ ā§āĻ° āĻāĻžāĻ āĻĨā§āĻā§ ā§§ āĻšāĻžāĻāĻžāĻ° ā§Ŧā§Ļā§Ļ āĻŽā§āĻāĻžāĻāĻ¯āĻŧāĻžāĻ āĻŦāĻŋāĻĻā§āĻ¯ā§ā§ āĻā§āĻ¨āĻžāĻ° āĻāĻ¨ā§āĻ¯ āĻā§āĻā§āĻ¤āĻŋ āĻāĻ°ā§āĻā§ āĻŦāĻžāĻāĻ˛āĻžāĻĻā§āĻļāĨ¤āĻāĻ¨ā§āĻ¤āĻ°ā§āĻāĻžāĻ¤āĻŋāĻ āĻāĻŦā§āĻˇāĻŖāĻž āĻ¸āĻāĻ¸ā§āĻĨāĻž āĻāĻ¨āĻ¸ā§āĻāĻŋāĻāĻŋāĻāĻ āĻ āĻŦ āĻāĻ¨āĻžāĻ°ā§āĻāĻŋ āĻāĻā§āĻ¨āĻŽāĻŋāĻāĻ¸ āĻ ā§āĻ¯āĻžāĻ¨ā§āĻĄ āĻĢāĻžāĻāĻ¨ā§āĻ¯āĻžāĻ¨ā§āĻ¸āĻŋāĻ¯āĻŧāĻžāĻ˛ āĻ ā§āĻ¯āĻžāĻ¨āĻžāĻ˛āĻžāĻāĻ¸āĻŋāĻ¸ā§āĻ° (āĻāĻāĻĢāĻž) āĻāĻ āĻĒā§āĻ°āĻ¤āĻŋāĻŦā§āĻĻāĻ¨ā§ āĻŦāĻ˛āĻž āĻšāĻ¯āĻŧā§āĻā§, āĻāĻĻāĻžāĻ¨āĻŋāĻ° āĻāĻ¯āĻŧāĻ˛āĻžāĻāĻŋāĻ¤ā§āĻ¤āĻŋāĻ āĻā§āĻ¨ā§āĻĻā§āĻ° āĻĨā§āĻā§ āĻā§āĻĒāĻžāĻĻāĻŋāĻ¤ āĻ āĻŦāĻŋāĻĻā§āĻ¯ā§āĻ¤ā§āĻ° āĻĒā§āĻ°āĻ¤āĻŋ āĻāĻāĻ¨āĻŋāĻā§āĻ° āĻĻāĻ° āĻĒāĻĄāĻŧāĻŦā§ ā§Ž āĻāĻžāĻāĻž ā§ā§§ āĻĒāĻ¯āĻŧāĻ¸āĻžāĨ¤ www.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/article/1468266/āĻāĻĻāĻžāĻ¨āĻŋāĻ°-āĻŦāĻŋāĻĻā§āĻ¯ā§ā§-āĻā§āĻāĻāĻŋāĻĒā§āĻ°ā§āĻŖ-āĻŦā§āĻ¯āĻ¯āĻŧāĻŦāĻšā§āĻ˛
22. For details, see: http://www.asiantribune.com/node/92136
23. For details, see: http://www.asiantribune.com/node/92136
24. See my Bangladesh: Political and Literary Reflections on a Divided Country, Ch. 1, pp. 4-5; Ch. 3, pp. 115-116; and Ch. 4, p. 140.
25. For details, visit: http://www.asiantribune.com/node/92126. In this context, Bangladeshis need to be careful about the Bangladeshi Hindu, Pijush Bandopadhyay, convener of Sampriti, and Dr Mamun Al Mahtab Swapnil, its secretary.
26. For details, visit: http://www.asiantribune.com/node/92126
27. https://www.dailyinqilab.com/article/122815/āĻāĻžāĻ°āĻ¤ā§āĻ°-āĻāĻžāĻĒā§-āĻā§āĻļāĻ˛ā§-āĻŦāĻŋāĻāĻ¸āĻāĻ¸āĻŋ; https://www.thedailystar.net/business/economy/news/2018-world-economic-outlook-imf-china-dominates-asian-economies-gdp-1631398
28. www.newagebd.net/article/36422/foreigners-working-illegally-go-unchecked; http://banglartune.com/archives/1280; āĻ¸āĻ¨āĻžāĻ¤āĻ¨āĻ§āĻ°ā§āĻŽāĻžāĻŦāĻ˛āĻŽā§āĻŦā§āĻļāĻŋāĻā§āĻˇāĻāĻā§āĻšāĻā§āĻ¯ā§āĻ¤ā§ā§Ģā§ĻāĻĻāĻŋāĻ¨āĻā§āĻāĻŋ! http://www.ittefaq.com.bd/wholecountry/2018/05/03/155735.html
29. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dtqjhVKddA
31. āĻ§āĻ°āĻž āĻā§āĻ¯āĻŧā§ āĻāĻ¸āĻāĻ āĻŦāĻ˛āĻ˛ā§āĻ¨, ‘āĻāĻŽāĻžāĻ° āĻŦāĻžāĻĄāĻŧāĻŋ āĻā§āĻĒāĻžāĻ˛āĻāĻā§āĻ’: www.bangla.24livenewspaper.com/bangladesh/22976-said-my-house-gopalganj ; https://paathok.news/89933 āĻāĻžāĻāĻž āĻ¨āĻž āĻĻāĻŋāĻ˛ā§āĻ āĻā§āĻ°āĻ¸āĻĢāĻžāĻ¯āĻŧāĻžāĻ°! āĻāĻ¯āĻŧāĻā§āĻāĻ° āĻāĻ āĻāĻ¸āĻŋāĻ° āĻ¨āĻžāĻŽ āĻĒā§āĻ°āĻĻā§āĻĒ āĻā§āĻŽāĻžāĻ° āĻĻāĻžāĻļ
32. āĻļāĻŋāĻļā§āĻ° ā§ĒāĻāĻŋ āĻāĻā§āĻā§āĻ˛ āĻā§āĻā§ āĻĻāĻŋāĻ˛ā§ āĻ¯ā§āĻŦāĻ˛ā§āĻ āĻ¨ā§āĻ¤āĻž http://www.mzamin.com/article.php?mzamin=109694
33. It is to be mentioned with regret that despite the Hefajote killings, the old and infirm and senile Allama Shafi supports, praises, and prays for Sheikh Hasina. He must have lost his brain and memory. He sold himself to Hasina long ago for his (or his Madrasaâs) selfish material gain. He has ungratefully forgotten what Begum Zia tried to do for the success of his Hefajote gathering at Dhaka at the risk of her own life. He has betrayed his own people who were mercilessly killed by the Hasina police that night at Dhaka. The Allama is not trustworthy any longer; he lost all respect and credibility. If Tahajjud is the criterion, then it is he who should be the PM of Bangladesh, not Hasina, because it is he who prays more Tahajjud than Hasina and then he should prove to become a Hazarat Umar.
34. www.facebook.com/BNPPublicMediaOfficial/posts/367922267933029?__tn__=K-R ;https://id-id.facebook.com/VOBIL/posts/737600223466431 ; amardesh.co.uk/āĻĄāĻŋāĻāĻŋāĻāĻžāĻ˛-āĻĢā§āĻ¯āĻžāĻ¸āĻŋāĻŦāĻžāĻĻ/