The Regime Change in Bangladesh: The Challenges Ahead

 





MARXIST LENINIST PARTY OF INDIA (RED FLAG)

Central Committee           Cochin, 9th August 2024

CC statement

The Regime Change in Bangladesh:

The Challenges Ahead

The regime change happened in Bangladesh due to the violent outcome triggered by the student unrest that boiled up into mass upheaval and a bloody conflict with the state forces, causing heavy loss of lives, has opened up a new scenario in that country. As the military forces chose not to back Sheik Hasina's government, she resigned and fled the country.

An interim government has come to office under Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2006 for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance, the winner of the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom and the winner of the United States Congressional Gold Medal. The interim government has offered to restore order amidst disturbing news coming in about murders of Awami league leaders including the relatives of the resigned prime minister, looting and arson. 

Earliest possible free and fair elections must be done to restore democracy and the reinstatement of the parliament. Only an all encompassing alternative that remedies the neo-classical economic path and the trajectory of the neo-liberal rule can ensure the future of Bangladesh and the prosperity of the people.

The greatest threat to this positive process comes from the US led imperialist camp and its domestic lackeys including the major reactionary force such as the Jamaat-e-Islami. Only the people's vigilance and the assertion of an articulate  anti-imperialist, secular and democratic movement can fulfil the said goal.

(Signed)

MS Jayakumar, General Secretary