Tarique Rahman takes oath as PM, but is Muhammad Yunus the real winner in Bangladesh?
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As BNP's Tarique Rahman takes oath today, Muhammad Yunus has emerged as the biggest winner in Bangladesh. He pulled off most things he set out to do in the last 18 months and conducted an election by barring his bete noire, Sheikh Hasina's Awami League, from it. How did an 85-year-old Yunus manage to get things done his way?
While everyone had been fixated on the battle between Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina, a political cyclone was taking shape in Bangladesh. At its epicentre was the fight between a Prime Minister who didn't have a Nobel, and a Nobel laureate who didn't have the PM's chair. That Tarique Rahman, Khaleda's son, is taking oath as the prime minister of Bangladesh on Tuesday, is the result of that very battle.
The cyclone I am referring to is the long-running fight between Awami League chief Hasina and Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus. That duel has been at the centre of Bangladesh's crisis and the evolving political situation.
The snowballing of the students' anti-quota protests into regime-change agitation, massive violence, the dramatic ouster of Sheikh Hasina and the stepping in of Muhammad Yunus out of nowhere came with clockwork precision. All in time, one after another in July and August 2024.
Yunus revealed in September 2024, just a month after the violent agitation, that the movement to remove Hasina was "meticulously designed". India Today Digital was one of the first to write that political parties and Islamists provided street muscle to the student leaders to dislodge the Hasina government.
However, today's story is how Yunus has emerged as the real winner even as the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) swept the February 12 election and its chief, Tarique Rahman, is set to take oath as the PM. We will analyse how Yunus, who doesn't have political muscle, got things done. And we will also try to answer the difficult question—will history be kind to Muhammad Yunus?
The octogenarian Yunus stepped down as the Chief Adviser to the interim administration in Bangladesh with an elected government being sworn in on Tuesday.
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