Yunus unveils ‘meticulously planned revolution' mastermind

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Bill Clinton cheers faces of violent protests of Bangladesh

By Raisina Correspondent

New Delhi, September 27: The US fêted Chief Advisor to the Interim Government of Bangladesh, Muhammed Yunus. At a felicitation by the Clinton Foundation, Yunus said that the “Bangladesh revolution was meticulously planned”.

The US president, Joe Biden, warmly met Yunus on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, called on Yunus.

The Chief Whip of the Senate Dick Durbin also met Yunus. The Chief Advisor of the Interim Government of Bangladesh has hectic days in the US.

The ousted Bangladesh prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, had visited the US a year ago in her bid to get the support of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The US-based South Asia observers recalled that no officials in Washington had shown courtesy to meet Hasina.

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Beaming with pride, Yunus at the felicitation by the Clinton Foundation introduced three “leaders of the revolution” – two men and one woman.

“It’s not just suddenly came. It’s not like that… very well designed… even the leadership pattern… people don’t know who are the leaders… so you can’t catch one and say okay it’s over… it’s not over,” Yunus said while introducing three faces of the students’ protests that ousted Hasin from power.

Former US president Bill Clinton was cheerfully clapping to Yunus revealing the face of the “meticulously planned” campaign to oust Hasina.

Brahma Chellaney, a US-based strategic affairs commentator, identified the man introduced by Yunus to Clinton as Mahfuz Alam. He serves as special secretary to Yunus, a Nobel laurate, who had been leaving in Paris until he was chosen as Chief Advisor of the Interim Government of Bangladesh.

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Yunus remarked that Alam was the brain behind the campaign to oust Hasina from power. Chellaney in a post on X claimed that “Alam is a leader of the Hizb ut-Tahrir terror outfit, proscribed by several Western nations”.

“After the regime change, Mahfuz Alam has sought to rebrand himself as a student leader with no association with Hizb ut-Tahrir,” added Chellaney.

However, some of the US-based South Asia observers contested the claims of Chellaney. But Yunus by saying that the students’ protests were “meticulously planned” has evidently contradicted statement of India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar who had said that there was “sudden disruptive changes in Bangladesh”.

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“They are the one creating the new version of Bangladesh,” added Yunus in his introduction of the three “leaders of the students’ protests”.

The Bangladeshi leader also stated that “when you see them in action, when you hear them speak, you’ll be shaking. They shook the whole country by their speeches, by their dedication, their commitment”.

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