The Traitors

The Supreme Court of Bangladesh issued a historic directive on Tuesday, June 28. A division bench comprising Justice Mohammad Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Kazi Izarul Haque Akand gave a specific direction on the conspiracy over the Padma Bridge. The High Court bench has directed to form a commission within the next 30 days to identify those involved in the conspiracy. The High Court has directed the commission to submit a report within two months. A hearing has been fixed for August 28 in this regard. The High Court bench termed the Padma Bridge as a 'national asset'. The High Court termed those who conspire against such national interests as national enemies. This is the first time in Bangladesh that the Supreme Court has directly directed to unmask a conspiracy. Through this directive, the court gave a strong message against those who are against the national interest. National enemy means enemy of the country. Those who take a stand against the country or the state are traitors. Such a traitor should be given the maximum punishment. On Wednesday, a day after the court's directive, a statement from the Yunus Center was sent to the media. In the statement, Dr Yunus denied all the allegations against him. The statement of a genius like Dr. Yunus is incoherent, inconsistent. He claimed in the statement that, he filed a writ petition in the High Court seeking protection of Grameen Bank's basic legal status, when asked to resign in 2011. It has nothing to do with holding a job. What a joke! The writ petition was filed seeking directions to reinstate Dr. Yunus but now he says it had nothing to do with holding the job. The whole statement is full of such confusions. The statement came shortly after the High Court directed the formation of the commission. The reason is very obvious. He is just trying to get rid of any liability. That means there is something fishy. There was no protest no statement, nothing for a long period of time. Then suddenly why this statement after the court asked to form a commission? He is screaming "I am not a conspirator," even before the commission is formed. Every achievement of Bangladesh came through many sacrifices. Various conspiracies have stood in the way of every achievement. Sometimes at home, sometimes abroad. Domestic and foreign conspiracies have again united and making every effort to thwart the achievement of the government. In the liberation war of 1971, the murderous Mushtaq group conspired against the interest of the country. They were busy with the confederation proposal with pakistan in the midst of war. Sensing this, Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed removed Mushtaq from the Foreign Office. The father of the nation was assassinated in ’75 to erase the existence of Bengalis. The assassination plot was hatched within the Awami League. In 2007, there was a conspiracy to thwart the demand for free, fair and neutral elections. The conspirators were a part of our civil society. Some cowardly politicians joined the greedy and cunning civilians. There was also a conspiracy over the Padma bridge. The conspiracy was led by some prominent personalities of the country under the leadership of the head of civil society Dr Yunus. The main aim of these conspiracies was to stop the progress Bangladesh. Erasing the existence of Bangladesh. All conspiracies are treason. But unfortunately, we have not been able to uncover or even show interest in unveiling the conspiracy. One conspiracy has laid the groundwork for another. After the liberation war, there was a demand to form a commission on who played what role in the liberation war. At that time Bangabandhu was concentrating on building the country. Therefore, he was not interested in forming a commission. The Father of the Nation began the trial of war criminals. He started the trial of these local accomplices of the Pakistani aggressors by dalal law. If this trial had continued, masked anti-independence activists could have been identified. They could be separated from the Awami League and the government. But that process was thwarted on August 15, 1975. After '75, Sheikh Hasina took the helm of the Awami League. Ever since she took over the leadership of the Awami League in 1981, she has been working tirelessly to demand the trial of Bangabandhu's assassination and the repeal of the Indemnity Ordinance. She formed public opinion. Campaigned for human rights. After 21 long years, the Awami League government was formed in 1996 under the leadership of Sheikh Hasina. The Indemnity Ordinance was then repealed and the trial of Bangabandhu's murder began. In 2009, Sheikh Hasina became the Prime Minister for the second time and completed the trial of Bangabandhu's assassination. The maximum punishment is meted out to several self-confessed murderers. But the conspiracy to assassinate Bangabandhu was not investigated. Several leaders, including Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, have been demanding the formation of a 'commission of inquiry' into the matter for years. Last year, on the occasion of National Mourning Day, Awami League leader Jahangir Kabir Nanak proposed to form a 'National Commission' to investigate the conspiracy of the assassination of Bangabandhu in presence of the prime minister. "We have tried the murder of the father of the nation, but we have not been able to investigate this blueprint," he said. The Awami League president raised various issues of the August conspiracy on various occasions of the National Mourning Day. The Prime Minister said, ‘such a big party with so many leaders, but no one came forward. Why didn’t a protest march take place?’ Many questions come to mind when I think about the August tragedy. Why did all the members of the cabinet of the Awami League become obedient servants of the murderer Mushtaq? Why did the chiefs of the three forces remain silent like puppets? Who or what persuaded Bangabandhu to cancel Zia's transfer order as ambassador? Many such questions. Many of those who were around at the time of the August tragedy are gone. And after a while, no witnesses will be found either, in the search for the truth. Why has the Awami League government not yet set up a commission to uncover the root cause of the August conspiracy? I just can't find the answer to this question. One-Eleven was a conspiracy against democracy and politics in Bangladesh. Some of the conspirators known for this conspiracy are now in abroad, some in the country. In this regard, the blueprint for depoliticization of 1-11 was not implemented due to the courage and determination of Sheikh Hasina. But the real details of this conspiracy against democracy have not been revealed even today. Why did Dr. Yunus win the Nobel Prize before One-Eleven? That too in peace! How the Nobel Prize was promoted as an achievement of one person (Grameen Bank Dr. Yunus) instead of collective is also a great question. Dr. Yunus tried to form a political party immediately after winning the Nobel. Daily Star editor Mahfuz Anam joined that political party! Political conflict over elections. To push the people into extreme uncertainty. Two front-line dailies (one Bengali, one English) are relentlessly denigrating politicians. Then to put elite bureaucrats like Dr. Fakhruddin on the throne. Everything tidy implementation of the perfect blueprint. Everything is the implementation of a perfect blueprint. Then with the constitutional fatwa of Dr. Kamal Hossain to give legitimacy to the illegal unelected government. The two editors endlessly appease the caretaker government. One columnist wrote in his own name, "Two leaders must move." Another set the stage for Sheikh Hasina's arrest without any verification of the intelligence agency's notes. Everything is like a garland in one thread. In the interest of the country, in the interest of democracy, in the interest of the people, it was necessary to form a commission of inquiry into the events of 1-11; But it did not. The murderer Mushtaq conspired to assassinate the father of the nation because there was no investigation against the conspirators during the Great Liberation War. Similarly, the lack of investigation into the conspirators of 1-11 gave them the courage to conspire against the Padma Bridge. The conspiracies of 1971, 1975, 2007 and 2011 are intertwined. All these conspiracies are actually against Bangladesh. The conspirators of the conspiracies of '71 and '75 were one and the same. The conspirators of the conspiracies of '71 and '75 were one and the same. Similarly, the conspirators of One-Eleven were united in the conspiracy against the Padma Bridge. The conspirators of '71 and '75 are war criminals, murderers. And the conspirators of 2007 and 2011 are anti-democratic, anti-state.

Why did Dr. Yunus obstruct the Padma Bridge? Why did the conspirators of 1-11 join him? The issue of Dr. Yunus has come up every time Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has spoken about the conspiracy against the construction of the Padma Bridge. Dr. Yunus was the Managing Director of Grameen Bank. Managing directors of government banks have a fixed age limit for employment. The prescribed age of the Managing Director of Grameen Bank had passed long ago. So the Bangladesh Bank sent him to retire. Dr. Yunus went to the High Court challenging the notification of Bangladesh Bank. The Supreme Court informed that the decision of Bangladesh Bank was correct. Finding no way, Dr. Yunus started lobbying. The then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also telephoned Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. She also gave a hidden threat. But neither Hillary nor Yunus probably had any idea of what Sheikh Hasina is made of. She is the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. She will never bow to these pressures. One pressure followed by another. The next one was from the World Bank. The World Bank cut off funding for the Padma Bridge. Dr. Yunus, who grew up in the moneylender business, knew that other donors would move away if the World Bank stopped funding. I think, Dr. Yunus realized that if Sheikh Hasina was the Prime Minister, he would not be able to return to the post of Managing Director of Grameen Bank. That is why he conspired to remove the Sheikh Hasina government. After losing the post of MD of Grameen Bank, he wanted to take revenge by occupying the highest post in the state. Wanted to create another 1-11. Stopping the funding for the Padma Bridge was in fact a conspiracy to overthrow the government. On June 29, 2012, the World Bank officially canceled the loan agreement, just a year and a half before the parliamentary elections. At this time, if we keep an eye on the two newspapers of 'Minus Formula Proponents', we will see various stories about corruption and irregularities. Dr. Badiul Alam Majumder, Dr. Devapriya Bhattacharya, Dr. Shahdin Malik and some other civil servants became penmen to prove corruption in the Padma Bridge! What the World Bank said at the time about moving away from the construction of the Padma Bridge has already been widely publicized in the country's media. I don't want to mention that here anymore; But there was only one aim of this organized pounding attack - to prove the government is corrupt. The civils come to power on the shoulders of the political parties. In 2007, the civils took power on the shoulders of the BNP. The BNP took all such decisions one after the other with Iajuddin Ahmed which closed the door of minimum fair election. In 2012, the civil society also blueprinted the beginning of another 'unelected' chapter with the BNP in mind. BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia took to the field demanding a non-partisan caretaker government. She started saying in her speech that there will be no Padma bridge during the tenure of this government. By saying such unrealistic, ridiculous things, she became the plaything of the civils.

After winning all the city corporations in 2013, when the confidence of the BNP leaders and workers was at its peak, Begum Zia announced the boycott of the national elections. The World Bank's certificate on corruption in the Padma Bridge and the announcement of a boycott of Begum Zia's election have paved the way for civil society. What the two civil editors did before One-Eleven is back on the field in exactly the same role. But they probably forgot about the immortal message of Karl Marx. Marx said, "The same thing does not happen again and again in history." The election was held in 2014. Another unelected government failed to seize power, as it did in 2007. As a result, the conspiracy to remove an elected government using the 'Padma Bridge' as trump card was foiled. This conspiracy was foiled only for one man. Her name is Sheikh Hasina. Like One-Eleven, this time also, some important people of the Awami League said, "The Padma bridge cannot be built with its own funds." Some key figures in the government rushed to Washington to renegotiate the loan agreement on World Bank terms. But Sheikh Hasina is a farsighted statesman. He knew who was conspiring against the Padma bridge and why they are you doing it. On July 4, 2012, ignoring the views of many important people in the government, she made a historic announcement in the National Assembly to build the Padma Bridge with its own funds. On July 8, she presented a plan to build the Padma Bridge with its own funds. It was approved by the cabinet on July 9. Then started an incredible battle to make the impossible possible. That is why the Prime Minister said in Parliament on Wednesday, June 29, "Our passion, our creativity, our courage, our endurance, our conviction are involved with this bridge. In the end, we saw the light through the darkness. 'This was Sheikh Hasina's second victory against the civilians. It was the civilians who played an ugly game of making Sheikh Hasina corrupt and extortionist in 2007. She was arrested on several false charges. Wanted to deduct her from politics. Exactly five years later, the same clique wanted to tarnish the image of the Bangabandhu family for the sake of personal gain by spreading rumors about the Padma Bridge. Wanted to exclude Sheikh Hasina from politics again. But just as Sheikh Hasina dispelled the darkness of all untruths in the light of honesty during 1-11, so she became as brave as the Himalayas in 2012. In the end she proved that she was right.

There are some people in this country who always want to harm others. Thousands of their own sins, but they are busy looking for the faults of others. The welfare, wellbeing and prosperity of people - everything is very unpleasant to them. This group does not want democracy in the country. When they see development, they seek for corruption. They cry when they see Bangladesh as a self-reliant country standing their head high in the world. The command of their foreign masters is the immortal word for them. The Padma Bridge has unmasked them in front of Bangladesh. The Padma Bridge has proved that they are not telling the truth. They do not want the welfare of the country.