#BangladeshCrisis: What's next for Sheikh Hasina and the country?

Bangladesh Crisis: In this episode of The Rising India Podcast, we dive into the volatile situation in Bangladesh, where recent events have sparked widespread unrest and uncertainty. With Sheikh Hasina’s leadership under fire and Dhaka in chaos, we explore the key factors driving this turmoil. Is Bangladesh merely a pawn in a larger geopolitical chess game involving the US, China, and India, or is there more to the story?

Join our host and special guest Sushant Sareen, a leading expert on Pakistan and South Asian geopolitics, as we unravel the complexities behind the headlines. From the controversial court judgment that reignited old tensions to the role of international actors in Bangladesh's political landscape, this discussion covers it all.

In Conversation:
Gautam Chikermane, Vice President, Observer Research Foundation
Sushant Sareen, Senior Fellow, Observer Research Foundation

00:00 - Intro: Bangladesh on the Brink
03:19 - The Crisis Unfolded
08:28 - Who Takes Control If Gov Falls?
11:51 - Can World Leaders Fix This?
13:20 - Is Bangladesh Turning Extremist?
18:51 - Dhaka: New Geopolitical Stage?
23:33 - Superpowers' Gains in Bangladesh
28:22 - Will Yunus Lead the country?
30:20 - Sheikh Hasina’s Future
35:50 - What Bangladesh Means for India
42:50 - India’s Strategic Response
44:30 - Economic Collapse: What’s Next?
48:10 - Violence as the New Regime Change Tool?

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[themtoniraniremaxbroker]

Absolutely Great Podcast, Why No One Could See this is Mind Boggling Indeed!! Sushant Sareen is a Pure Gem, Just Brilliant!! Many thanks from Canada!!

[SumanBalan]

We have to deal with whoever is in power in any country. Sushant is right on point. One of my favorite geopolitical analyst.

[sanjeevbhattacharjee]

There won’t be any civil war in Pakistan …the awaam has lost its soul and the will to agitate n stand against anarchy ..it’s not part of their DNA to agitate or to put up a fight against atrocities

[bipinchandra]

Sushant Sareen is the best commentator on global affairs:
'There is no morality in international relations'

[shreyaskulkarni]

Dear host stop poking the speaker while he's answering..hold ur question till he finishes

[mithunpramanik]

I like Sushant's intelligent to-the-point analysis very much.... As an old teacher who has experienced the 1971 war, I have been following the Bengali messages for the last two years particularly emanating out of Europe.. It is explicit that money was received by jamaat and jehadi radical agents in EU for fromenting if not more before India out campaign in Bangladesh... When it did not work it was diverted to direct action by jehadi students and promoters... When Hasina banned jamaat they went for final kill... Every documents files books on 1971 has been burnt to ashes... All statues books records of Rabindranath Tagore and Mujibur have been destroyed .. all music instrument drama burnt.. actors musicians lynched... Some displays were shameful like shouting with undergarments of Hasina and pissing on father of the nation... Along with loot arson vandalism and killing and hanging deadbodies from trees bridges etc... If you join the dots then it depicts the exact replica of pxtn.. Tlbn etc.. Bharat must become extremely strong handed and deal exactly like pxtn... Keep Bengali translators and keep tag on messages... There is no doubt at all what is happening... Do not neglect...

[NumberWorld]

*Hopefully nextime Sushant will give the HOST the list of question to be asked in sequence, nothing less nothing more, so as to not disturb the flow....* 🤣🤣🤣

[rashnadastur]

Good to hear a calm and rational analysis. Sushant has tremendous knowledge. Really good podcast thank you.

[murugansoundar]

Do one podcast about Pakistan's political history with him

[edwinjoy]

By destabilising the Bangladesh, US can check China and balance India. In other words, US strengthened its grip on Indo-Pacific.

[debabratagope]

Good analysis about current situation in Bangladesh by Sushant ji. Thanks ORF for such a good topic 🙏🙏

[pitch_imperfect]

My 2 cents on why America did what it did in Bangladesh is to get back to India for its policy in the Ukraine saga.

[shikharsrivastava]

Should I apologise 😅
And I was waiting for Sushant's comment on this issue.

[sanjeevbhattacharjee]

Why do we keep over compensating Congress for initiating things but not give credit to Modi for doing the hard slog in global diplomacy, economy n neighbourhood first policy..as a matter of fact, in all spheres

[seshashayi]

High quality discussion Podcast.For people in India and particularly Political class, the following questions are relevant:What are the lessons and how can it be prevented.IAC led by Anna Hazare and Kejriwaal movement was handled, in retrospect, by the then PM with adroit and shrewdness.There are serious problems such as Corruption, Amassing of wealth by political class, Unemployment particularly Educated youths, mal governance, reservation policy, etc that may trigger an upraising.Like to know how these can be tackled.

[orangelays]

thank you for this and all your other work at ORF- an admirer

[etpntfe]

This Gautam is looking so like a wannabe 😂

[nasidctg]

To anyone who isn't Bangladeshi and is looking for genuine answers to a few questions.
First of all, I'm a Bangladeshi, currently living in Bangladesh and I am in no way affiliated with any political parties and I hate every single one of them.

1. For the last 15 years, one thing that has been forcefully taken away from us is freedom of speech. Since 2009, not once have one single democratic and free election been held in the country. In 2014, she abolished the interim government rule and presided over the election herself. 98% voting stations had their doors closed and shut with police and Chatra leauge waiting outside with weapons to stop the people from entering.
in 2019, the votes were all cast already the previous night. In the digital voting centers, didn't matter if you pressed any other symbol, it only casted the vote to Boat(her symbol).
in 2024 there were no opposition, none at all. She held the elections herself and only she participated and won.
Being a Bengali first, regardless of living conditions and lifestyle voting rights and freedom of speech/expression are the most important thing to us. We express in a lot of ways, through art, poetry, songs and all of that was forcefully taken from us to the point where we couldn't even talk about what was going on around us.
If any of us wrote one single line that was against the government, even if it was gospel truth, we would be either arrested, kidnapped and then encountered or taken to a secret government torture cell called "AYNAGHOR". Google it.
If a person would be taken to Aynaghor, the state would deny their capture and the person would disappear forever. You didn't need to be a political activist or associate to be the target of the government. Any Tom, Dick or Harry could be abducted. Forced disappearance became a very normal reality.

2. The government officials were systematically replaced by Awami Leauge supporters using the quota system and fake freedom fighter certificates. Jobs were being handed out like peanuts to Awami Leauge associates and their families even in private sectors.
The police and their special branches like DB, RAB, CID, NSI became the most corrupt and started misusing their power on normal people. From a street side chaiwala to the biggest businessman, no one was safe. The police would plant drugs on unsuspecting normal people and extort money from them.

3. Every single and I mean it, every single government officials became so corrupt to the point they didn't even want to talk without bribe. There are drivers and peon's roaming around with 1000Crore bank balances and got their families migrated to USA, Canada, Australia, Dubai and other EU countries using Business Migration.
The bigger fish, high officials and Mp's and Ministers literally became multi millionaires and some even Billionaires in US dollars.

4. The entire market place, from everyday items to food to cultivation to cattle and even IT was controlled by syndicates. Syndicates made up of Awami Leauge leaders and supporters. All other competing businessmen were either sent to jail, out of the country or some even to Aynaghor.

5. The education system was utterly destroyed. From once having the best curriculam for Medical and Engineering and a hub for PHD and WHO research, it was brought down to it's knee's by rampant corruption and nepotism.

6. The BCS(Indian Equivalent of UPSC for IAS and IPS) which was once held by the entire world for being one of the hardest exam's, it became a gateway for Awami Leauge supporters to get in to civil service through question paper leaks and quota system.

7. Fake Islamic Terrorism. While some instances of fundamentalist islamic terrorism has taken place in the country, many of them were government made and regular normal people were arrested, killed or taken in to custody just to say to the world that we need Sheikh Hasina to suppress this in Bangladesh.

8. Manufactured inflation that increased prices of day to day essentials 100 times over.

9. Prime ministers advisor and billionaire awami businessman Salman F Rahman controlled the stock market like an overlord. It was his puppet.

10. Business's and homes of regular people were taken over by the awami goons.

11. To address a few viral videos. It was Mashrafe Murtaza's house not Liton Das's.
The person in the pond swimming to avoid attacks was not a hindu but the mayor and Awami Leauge leader of that area and was a muslim.
The video of a woman being carried to an ambulance is not a rape victim but a victim of domestic violence from her husband in 2021.
The multiple rape victims video is not even from Bangladesh but Bengaluru, India.
Uttara, Mohammadpur and certain areas in Chittagong where attacks have happened are not Hindu areas but Muslim areas and they were bihari robbers from the refugee camps and not anything else.

These are just a very few points, if I start talking in details it would take a million more words to finish. All of the above started when she plotted and killed off intellectual army officers in the Darbar Hall massacre which is now know as the BDR Mutiny.
That's the day it started and it never stopped.
For all intents and purposes, we have not just been living under a dictatorship but a mafia rule for the past 15 years.
The students protested 3 times and third time was the charm. She ordered the police and military to control the protest by any means necessary. Deaths meant nothing as long as she was in power and the police, rab, bgb, swat and dgfi complied but the military didn't. Although she replaced all the important military personnel with her own people, some of them had grown a conscience and the biggest part of the military training is to never shoot your own citizens and thank god that training came in to play.
Most of the military just stepped aside and let the students move forward on the last day. Most of the personnel she had appointed were sacked the very night and all prisoners of Aynaghor were released.
She bought high tech Israeli spyware and spied on literally everyone, even her own party people because she had developed trust issues which only happened because she knew what she was doing was wrong. She called herself the mother of murderer's in her close quarters.

Dr. Yunus has been chosen by the people unanimously to fix the country and has been given a time frame of 6 months to 6 years to do whats necessary and hold free and fair elections.
The country has come to a point where every political party except her awamil leauge has agreed to let Dr Yunus do what needs to be done without intervention.

About the attacks on Hindu's. Let me be very clear. Every content on the internet is reverse searchable. Please do and you will see that 90% of it is fake.
After Sheikh Hasina fled, one of the leaders of Chatra leauge was caught trying to flee at the airport and his cellphone was confiscated. In his cellphone, messages were found where he and other leaders ordered other Awami Leauge supporters to covertly attack Hindu temples and houses to create a communal violence so that people start to think Sheikh Hasina was better. It was further proved by the fact that even before one single hindu family/temple was attacked, Hasina's son Sajeeb posted a facebook video where he said his mother just left and already minorities are being attacked but not a single attack happened till then.
Fun fact, this tactic brought the country closer and united us more as Mullah's and Madrasa students came to protect the hindu area's and temples.

If any of you have read the whole thing then please feel free to ask me questions and I will give you real, unbiased answers but you have to be civil.
And to the showrunners, please have someone like me on call if necessary to get a real picture and get real answers which are unbiased and not related to any political parties.
And please I beg all of you to not buy in to conspiracy theories. We hate Pakistan, more than you do. The pro pakistan comments you see on social media are mostly bots of different political parties and some are regular people trying have fun by trolling and a majority of them are Bihari's. The bihari's that the pakistani's left here in 1971 and they cause all kinds of troubles including petty crimes and even murders here and they still hope to reunite Bangladesh and Pakistan someday. Most of them hates us. I personally feel pity for them but I am just one person.
Most Bangladeshi's like me hate radicals as much as anyone else in the world. Be it a muslim radical or a hindu radical.
And not everyone wearing a cap and who has a beared is Jamat Islami. My dad has a colored beard and wears a white cap but he is a doctor and a researcher for WHO and has been part of many research teams that has worked on figuring out treatment for the various diseases including covid. He is just religious and most older generation Bangladeshi's are just like that, religous. Not extremists.
We are the only nation in the world who fought for independence twice and also for the right to speak their mother language. Do not belittle us or be weary of us just because of some conspiracy theories.
ISI can't afford to buy a plane ticket to Bangladesh let alone fund an uprising.

[joybarua]

Just a critical thought for all the researchers. Up until last week absolutely none of them had understood or hinted that this would happen. And now analysing the aftermath seems a bit of a knee jerk response.
A self introspection of why none of these people whose sole job is to analyse missed this development would be helpful

[ShahRaj-sefw]

SHEIKH HASINA SHOULD BECOME CM OF WEST BENGAL AFTER ACQUISITION OF CITIZENSHIP IN INDIA 🎉