Yunus has repeatedly shied away from announcing elections and reportedly threatened resignation amid political and military pushback over a proposed Rohingya Corridor that his critics claim has the support of the United States.
Muhammad Yunus, the chief adviser to the interim government in Bangladesh, is not stepping down.
“The chief adviser is not stepping down. The chief adviser never said he will resign. The other advisers too will remain in their positions. We are here to fulfill the responsibility given to us,” Wahiduddin Mahmud, the planning adviser in the interim government, told journalists in Dhaka on Saturday.
“An extremely well-planned conspiracy is on to delay holding of elections. Some people have infiltrated the administration and are trying to take the country to a different direction,”
--- BNP general secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said at an event held to commemorate the death anniversary of BNP founder Gen Ziaur Rahman.
Bangladesh's caretaker government chief Muhammad Yunus would meet leaders of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), seen as the front-runners in elections.
Army chief Gen Waker Zaman has almost set a deadline that polls should be held by December 2025.
Yunus had taken charge after a student-led revolt forced then-prime minister Sheikh Hasina to leave the country and shift to India on August 5, 2024.
Yunus will also meet leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami, the Muslim-majority nation's largest Islamist party on Saturday evening. The caretaker head Yunus has threatened to resign if political parties do not cooperate with him.
This could be a ploy as apparently he wants to move overseas for a while to campaign for newly launched National Citizen Party (NCP).
An over ambitious individual and an over-rated economist, Yunus is also considered a stooge of the American deep state.
There are reasons to believe that the external forces influenced the protest against Sheikh Hasina. One of the reasons being her closeness to Indian authorities.
The India-Bangladesh relations including on border movement and commerce have deteriorated much since August 2024.
Yunus has also made comments against India especially in reference to northeastern region.
Indian authorities are taking a closer look at the developments in its eastern neighbourhood.
Central and state forces in states such as West Bengal, Assam and Tripura chiefly have been instructed to tighten the security grid.
Intelligence inputs from various agencies are being shared and special instructions have been made to focus on travel routes connected to Bangladesh.
Group such as Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) may also get activated, reports suggest.
The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) too have been instructed to enhance vigilance at certain airports which register good turnout of passengers to and from Dhaka in Bangladesh.
Yunus is trying to extend his stay in power using pressure tactics, with his supporters rallying against nationwide elections. Capital Dhaka has been wrapped in posters demanding "reforms first, elections later" and to "keep Yunus in power for five years".
The Nobel laureate was appointed the Chief Adviser to the interim government that was formed after the ouster of Sheikh Hasina last year. The makeshift arrangement was to last until elections, but critics claim he's now trying to stay in power without facing the elections.
Analysts link Yunus's resignation threat to the stiff opposition to his plans to build a Rohingya Corridor in Bangladesh. Critics claim the corridor idea has been backed by the US and is being fronted by the UN.
But the Bangladesh Army maintains that only an elected government with the mandate of the people can decide on issues related to the country's territorial integrity and sovereignty. Army Chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman has scoffed at the idea during an interaction with army officers, dismissing it as a "bloody corridor".
Differences over this Rohingya Corridor had led to Bangladesh's Foreign Secretary's resignation earlier this week, sources say, suggesting that Yunus now finds himself cornered and with charges that he is acting at the behest of foreign players.
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