Bangladesh's interim government barred Awami League from contesting the upcoming parliamentary polls as it feared the party's popularity, two senior leaders of the party said on Saturday. Awami League leaders Hasan Mahmud and Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury also said that the Muhammad Yunus-led interim govt in Dhaka is incapable of holding free and fair polls in the country. "Under this administration, a level playing field for Awami League will never be possible," Mahmud, who was a minister in the Sheikh Hasina-led government, said at a media briefing in New Delhi.Mahmud and Chowdhury also accused the Yunus-led dispensation of failing to protect the minorities in Bangladesh. He criticised a report presented by the UN Human Rights Office on deaths and violence during protests in July–August 2024 as biased and one-sided.
#WATCH | Delhi: On the Bangladesh court sentencing ousted PM Sheikh Hasina to death, Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury, a former minister in the Hasina cabinet, says, "It is an unfair proceeding... It had relied on unverifiable, unreliable witnesses; it was entirely one-sided. "
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Referring to the interim government’s decision to bar all activities of the Awami League, which led to the party being kept out of Bangladesh’s general election scheduled for February 12, Mahmud said: “The election should be held under a neutral caretaker government. This administration is completely hostile towards us, and they are taking revenge on us.
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