{"id":4789,"date":"2025-11-20T06:37:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T00:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=4789"},"modified":"2025-11-20T06:38:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T00:38:54","slug":"journalist-ma-aziz-bnp-leader-moni-slam-yunus-for-serving-foreign-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=4789","title":{"rendered":"Journalist MA Aziz, BNP leader Moni slam Yunus for serving foreign powers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nobel laureate and Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus is facing mounting accusations that his interim government is deliberately postponing national elections while quietly advancing foreign geopolitical interests, including the effective \u201chandover\u201d of strategic ports and the integration of foreign nationals into key decision-making roles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a heated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v5ZKd0MmpBA&amp;t=302s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">episode <\/a>of the popular talk show Tritiyo Matra, prominent analysts and former Yunus supporters openly declared that the interim administration has fallen into a \u201cgeopolitical trap\u201d orchestrated by Western powers, primarily the United States. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speakers warned that Bangladesh risks losing sovereignty over critical infrastructure and border regions unless elections are held immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u09ad\u09df\u0999\u09cd\u0995\u09b0 \u09aa\u09cd\u09b0\u09a4\u09be\u09b0\u09a3\u09be! \u2014 \u09a1. \u0987\u0989\u09a8\u09c1\u09b8\u0995\u09c7 \u09ac\u09bf\u09b6\u09cd\u09ac\u09be\u09b8\u09c7\u09b0 \u09ae\u09c2\u09b2\u09cd\u09af \u099a\u09b0\u09ae \u09a6\u09bf\u09a4\u09c7 \u09b9\u09ac\u09c7 \u09ac\u09bf\u098f\u09a8\u09aa\u09bf\u0995\u09c7? | \u09b8\u09be\u0982\u09ac\u09be\u09a6\u09bf\u0995 \u098f\u09ae \u098f \u0986\u099c\u09bf\u099c\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v5ZKd0MmpBA?start=302&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf Yunus had simply organised elections within three months and stepped down, the country would not have come to this standstill,\u201d senior journalist MA Aziz lamented, expressing regret for having once trusted the Grameen Bank founder. \u201cInstead, the sole obsession now is clinging to power while the nation slides into ruin.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ports, Military Bases, and Secret Agreements<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aziz alleged that recent trade and security agreements signed with the United States contain undisclosed clauses that could allow foreign military access. \u201cThey have already handed over the ports,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat guarantee prevents a \u2018humanitarian corridor\u2019 or even a military base from following?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=4785\">Yunus Regime\u2019s Fourth Agenda: Journalist Masood Kamal slams port handovers<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=4728\">BNP slams Yunus over Chittagong Port sell-off<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He raised fears about a broader regional redesign: the possible carving out of independent or autonomous entities in Tibet, Rakhine (Arakan), and surrounding areas, with Bangladesh\u2019s northeastern region being \u201cautomatically occupied\u201d due to the absence of countermeasures. \u201cBig vultures have set their eyes on us,\u201d he warned, describing Bangladesh as a pawn in the superpower rivalry between the dollar and the rupee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Foreign Citizens Running the Government<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A major point of contention is the reported presence of at least 17 foreign citizens\u2014including dual-national Americans\u2014in advisory and decision-making positions within the Yunus administration. Two members of the US-backed National Consensus Commission left the country abruptly without public explanation, Aziz said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=4717\">Yunus apologist rights body protest plot centring Chittagong Port<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=4717\">Yunus apologist rights body protest plot centring Chittagong Port<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BNP leader Nilofar Chowdhury Moni reminded viewers that American citizenship requires an oath of exclusive loyalty to US interests. \u201cThose who took that oath did not come here for Bangladesh\u2019s benefit,\u201d she argued. \u201cThey will serve their own country\u2019s agenda and leave when the job is done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Echoes of 1\/11 and a Ten-Year Plan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moni also drew parallels with the 2007 military-backed caretaker government (1\/11), when Yunus was reportedly offered the helm but demanded a ten-year tenure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSheikh Hasina never forgave him for that,\u201d one speaker noted. \u201cThis time he has returned with the same long-term target\u2014not as the main actor, but as the vehicle through which a superpower\u2019s agenda will be implemented.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Economic Collapse and Uncertain Elections<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With GDP growth reportedly down to 3\u20134% and the IMF withholding loans in the absence of an elected government, Aziz warned of looming famine and state failure. \u201cEven if BNP wins the next election, they will inherit a destroyed country,\u201d he predicted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Host Zillur Rahman, president of the Centre for Governance Studies (CGS), summarised the discussion on a grim note: \u201cEveryone wants Bangladesh to return to democracy through free and fair elections, but what we are witnessing makes that prospect look almost impossible. Numerous serious allegations now surround the head of government, and the situation is growing more complicated by the day. The election itself remains uncertain.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel laureate and Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus is facing mounting accusations that his interim government is deliberately postponing national elections while quietly advancing foreign geopolitical interests, including the effective&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,101,42],"tags":[113,1196,207,132,115,50,65,56,209,906,64,1197],"class_list":["post-4789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-interview","category-politics","tag-arakan-corridor","tag-centre-for-governance-studies-cgs","tag-chittagong-port","tag-elections","tag-humanitarian-corridor","tag-interim-government","tag-mobocracy","tag-muhammad-yunus","tag-tritiyo-matra","tag-us","tag-yunus-gang","tag-zillur-rahman"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4789"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4792,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789\/revisions\/4792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}