Yunus's aides looking for a safe exit from Bangladesh? Here's the truth
India Today
Right after the results of the Bangladesh election were declared on February 13, Faiz Ahmad Taiyeb, a special assistant to Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus, left for Germany. The "surprise departure" brought back the chatter of "safe exits" by Yunus's aides as the BNP takes charge of the government. The fact is that there is no bid for "safe exits".
Just over a day after the results of the Bangladesh election trickled in, Dhaka-based newspaper The Daily Star reported that Faiz Ahmad Taiyeb, a special assistant to Muhammad Yunus on the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) and telecommunications, had booked a flight ticket and departed the country for Germany. The newspaper called Taiyeb's flight out of Bangladesh a "surprise departure".
However, it might not have been a total surprise, if experts were to be believed. Months ago, there were murmurs of Yunus' officials looking for safe exits from Bangladesh. After the report in The Daily Star, many on social media platform X speculated that there would be a flurry of hasty departures of Yunus's aides from Bangladesh.
However, sources in Dhaka said that while Taiyeb might have left Bangladesh, other aides of Yunus and officials of his regime were not seeking to leave immediately. It was earlier believed that several of Yunus's aides and officials would leave Bangladesh after the polls. The source said that since those officials have now been fully "mainstreamed" and a smooth power transfer is taking place in Dhaka, the advisors in the interim set-up are all choosing to stay put in Bangladesh.
Yunus's tenure as Chief Adviser of Bangladesh's interim regime will end on Tuesday, February 17. The handover of power to the newly elected BNP-led government will also take place on the same day. Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chief Tarique Rahman will be taking the oath of office as the prime minister on Tuesday evening.
The report of Taiyeb's Dhaka departure comes at a politically sensitive moment. Bangladesh, after being administered by an interim set up led by Muhammad Yunus, is now set to be governed by a democratically elected government, albeit with the Awami League—one of the country's main political parties—barred from participating.
Following months of turmoil, when anti-Sheikh Hasina protests dislodged her government, Yunus was made head of a caretaker-style administration by sections of the student leadership that spearheaded the movement. However, Bangladesh's Constitution contains no explicit provision for installing such an arrangement in the manner it was done. Critics therefore described the regime as "extra-legal" and "extra-constitutional".
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