Bangladesh Army rejects student-led NCP leader’s allegation of political interference
The Hindu
Bangladesh Army denies political interference, calls allegations "hilarious" and "immature", amid tensions with student-led party.
The Bangladesh Army on Sunday (March 23, 2025) rejected allegations made by a newly formed student-led party that the military was hatching a plan to rehabilitate deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League, calling them "hilarious and an immature array of stories."
The National Citizen Party (NCP) staged protest rallies at the premier Dhaka University campus on Saturday (March 22, 2025), vowing to thwart at any cost a “military-backed plot” to rehabilitate the party.
The military headquarters, in a statement issued to Sweden-based Bangladesh-centric news outlet Netro News, said," “It was nothing other than a political stunt.”
The Army called the claims "hilarious and an immature array of stories."
The statement, however, said Army chief General Waker Uz Zaman met with two NCP leaders Hasnat Abdullah and Sarjis Alam on March 11 at his Dhaka Cantonment residence as they had long sought a "courtesy meeting" with him.
It said the Army chief’s office had asked them to come to the Army headquarters but the pair instead went to his official residence Sena Bhaban. They waited there until the Army chief came there after completing his official duties.
The Army statement came as tensions started gripping Bangladesh after the NCP, which was floated last month with widely assumed blessings of Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus, accused the military of political interference.
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