New Delhi : Mohammed Shahabuddin, revealed how the interim regime of Muhammad Yunus treated him after the ouster of PM Sheikh Hasina, the Ameer of the Islamist party, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, Shafiqur Rahman launched a big attack on the former. Shafiqur Rahman, who is now the Leader of the Opposition, asked as to how Shahabuddin suppressed many facts regarding the events of August 5, 2024, the day Hasina left the country.
Shahabuddin had ripped apart the Yunus regime, terming its rule and many of its actions as unconstitutional. Shahabuddin had revealed that the Yunus administration put him under virtual house arrest, tried to unseat him from the Presidency several times and prevented him from flying out of Bangladesh for medical treatment. Shahabuddin, who became the President of Bangladesh in April 2023, was an appointee of the Hasina-led Awami League government.
Shafiqur was referring to the controversy over Sheikh Hasina’s missing resignation letter, a document which was constitutionally required to legitimise the coming in of Yunus’s interim regime set after Hasina left for India. You know Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has tendered her resignation letter to the president and I have received it,” Shahabuddin had said in a televised address to the nation on August 5, hours after Hasina left.
Shabuddin stayed the President of Bangladesh through the 18 months of the Yunus regime. He alleged that the interim regime tried to remove him from the top office repeatedly. After the Tarique Rahman-led BNP government won the February 12 polls and came to power after the interim regime and Shahabudin got a helping hand from the former, the President has revealed a lot about what he went through during the period.
According to him, he managed to hold on only due to the support he received from the upper echelons of the BNP, as well as the Armed Forces. “A high-ranking leader from the BNP assured me that I had their support. We want to maintain constitutional continuity. We are not in favour of removing the President through any unconstitutional means,” Shahabuddin told Kaler Kontho.
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