It’s none diversified than ousted top minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Pleasure who has turn out to be the self-proclaimed “face of Awami League” as effectively because the sole mouthpiece for the celebration in an obvious continuation of Mujib’s dynasty after his mother.
Since his mother Hasina resigned, fled the nation and took refuge in India on 5 August following an extraordinary college students-folks insurrection, Pleasure, in interviews with dozens of international media including many Indian news outlets, has been talking for Hasina and the celebration.
Lastly, because the sole spokesperson, he expressed his “happiness” at the indication made by the navy chief in an interview with Reuters that the parliamentary election must quiet be held in the subsequent 18 months as he stated, “I’m overjoyed to listen to we salvage an expected timeline no much less than now.”
Fair of AL in reforms?
Rapidly after the navy chief’s interview became once printed, Pleasure demanded a job for the Awami League in the reforms initiated by the Muhammad Yunus-led intervening time authorities and the subsequent election in an interview with Reuters.
But his needs could existing to be ultimate that. The advisory council of the intervening time authorities on 5 September which marks a month of Hasina’s ouster from energy, determined that the “fascist Awami League will no longer salvage any alternative to advise political activities unless its trial is completed.”
Pleasure, who has already invited controversy for his contradictory remarks on diversified events, came up with the search recordsdata from at a time when the AL is now at an existential juncture because it is facing the probability of being banned for the first time in its history.
Charges of crimes in opposition to humanity
The celebration has been accused of committing crimes in opposition to humanity and genocide at some stage in the July-August motion that toppled Hasina ending her extra than 15 years-long authoritarian rule.
Preparation is underway to worth the celebration formally. The law ministry has drafted a proposal for adjustments in the Global Crimes Tribunal Act looking out for to introduce a provision that enables the banning of a political celebration for as much as 10 years for committing crimes in opposition to humanity and genocide.
All signs point out the AL shall be placed on the dock alongside with Hasina and tons different leaders of her celebration below the ICT Act on the same worth.
If found responsible, the AL could perchance furthermore very effectively be banned for the first time since its establishment in 1949. The courts will reflect the length of the ban whether or no longer it’d be for ten years, potentially the most punishment or much less.
Any of its leaders, if found responsible on the opposite hand, shall be disqualified from contesting election for existence, according to a provision of the election law presented sooner than the 2008 election according to a favored search recordsdata from to ban battle criminals in elections.
In an interview with Reuters on 24 September, Hasina’s son Sajib Wazed Pleasure, who’s for the time being residing in the United States, also warned that “right reform and polls were no longer doable without the oldest political celebration AL.”
He made the search recordsdata from because the intervening time authorities on Wednesday stated that it could perchance aid talks with political events after receiving strategies from the six reform panels it has set up.
“Once the consensus on the reforms is reached and the voter list is ready, the date for the vote shall be presented,” stated the set of enterprise of the chief adviser.
So, Pleasure requires that AL too be invited to the talks alongside with diversified political events.
In an interview with Reuters, Pleasure, demanded a job for the Awami League in the reforms initiated by the Muhammad Yunus-led intervening time authorities and the subsequent election
Does AL matter anymore?
But his warning that “right reform and polls were no longer doable without AL” holds minute energy in the most modern political field.
The manager of the election scheme reform commission already commented that elections without AL would no longer be truly appropriate unacceptable.
Staying in the US, extra than 12,000 kilometres a long way from Bangladesh, Pleasure perchance can no longer sense the point out pulse in politics.
Hasina, who has been leading the AL for extra than four decades with an iron fist, is now in exile in India for an unsure length. Some of her celebration leaders and ministers salvage been taken into custody. Many others salvage both disappeared from public gape or reportedly fled the nation.
Her authoritarian rule destroyed all political and social and economic institutions in the nation – thereby setting up a Kleptocratic regime over which she reigned regally. Her rule is being labelled “fascist.” Hasina even destroyed the celebration that introduced her to energy. But her son Pleasure is now claiming AL’s role in reforming the institutions corresponding to parliament, judiciary and election scheme which were brutally destroyed at some stage in Hasina’s rule since 2009 nullifying all earlier reform measures.
Within the changed political dynamics, the AL isn’t any longer being truly appropriate as one of the significant significant formulation in building a brand recent Bangladesh via reforms. The celebration that excluded all diversified events positioning itself because the sole guardian of Bangladesh has been excluded.
Within the political vacuum left by Hasina and her celebration’s exclusion, Jamaat has emerged as a key challenger of BNP, the celebration that is the significant rival of AL. Politics in the approaching days will buckle down and do many extraordinary events shaping and reshaping post Hasina Bangladesh.
Is a ban coming for AL?
The ancient irony is that the AL which became once the expression of Bengali nationalism once upon a time and played a pivotal role in the Battle of Liberation five decades previously is now facing the probability of a ban on worth of committing crimes in opposition to humanity and genocide for Hasina’s misrule and her makes an strive to hold to energy by massacring men, women and younger folks.
Right here is a right understatement that the celebration authorities led by Hasina that held a trial of top leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami on worth of committing crimes in opposition to humanity at some stage in the nation’s liberation battle shall be on the dock on the same worth.
Intriguingly, the original ICT Act became once made in 1973 by the authorities led by her father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to aid trial of battle criminals of 1971 below a special constitutional provision.
His authorities became once empowered with sweeping authority by the first modification to the Constitution in the same year to seem at out battle criminals by introducing any law no matter its inconsistency with any piece of the Constitution.
Hasina’s authorities amended the ICT Act twice– once in 2009 and all once more in 2013-to expedite trials and make definite the punishment of battle criminals.
After her ouster from energy, the intervening time authorities has moved to amend the law looking out for to introduce a provision for banning a political celebration for as much as 10 years on worth of committing crimes in opposition to humanity and genocide.
Pleasure wears the mantle of celebration saviour
Amid this sort of field, the Fifty three-year-inclined Pleasure appears to be like to salvage taken up the mantle of a saviour Avatar for every AL and her mother’s legacy.
Four days after his mother became once ousted, Pleasure, in an interview with NDTV on 10 August, claimed that “by default, I even salvage turn out to be the face of Awami League.”
His notify raised the question. What has made him the face of AL by default now? He’s barely one of the significant hundreds of hundreds of people of the celebration. Neither does he aid any post in the celebration. His diversified identification is that he is the son and an adviser of the fallen top minister Hasina.
Is it since the diversified leaders disappeared from public gape that he had to turn out to be the face of AL?
Hasina and her son Pleasure salvage a similarity in that every claims the right to salvage AL as a family property.
In his newest interview his notify that “today I want to aid my celebration folks real” reflects his “I-ness” and he too thinks of the AL as his family property.
But he isn’t any longer lucky indulge in his mother Hasina, who returned residence ending her existence in exile for extra than six years after the fall of the regime of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975.
The AL, which became once ruin up into two after the fall of the Mujib regime, found in Hasina a symbol of cohesion of the factions. She became once welcomed residence in Might well perchance well just 1981 by her celebration leaders who then unanimously made her the celebration chief for survival. Under her management, the celebration united and returned to energy in 1996 after a long ruin of 21 years. But her consecutive fourth length of time as top minister since 2009 ended ingloriously with her being pressured to inch into exile all once more and making her return unsure.
Right here is a diversified Bangladesh
Presently’s Bangladesh is diversified from the one in 1981 when she returned. So, the return of her son as “the crown prince” to Bangladesh to lead her celebration stays unsure as he became once also accused of commercial corruption and abuse of the powers, according to media reports.
Around twenty years previously, Hasina had moved to baptise her son Pleasure because the crown prince of her celebration for the continuation of the dynasty as Pleasure became once accorded a rousing reception on 22 December 2004 in Dhaka on his arrival from the US.
Family people, kinfolk and hundreds of celebration leaders and group gathered at the Zia Global Airport (ZIA) to welcome Pleasure. A total bunch of leaders and group of AL-connected organisations corresponding to Chhatra League, Jubo League, Mohila Awami League and Sramik League lined up from the airport to Hasina’s put Sudha Sadan in Dhanmondi, keeping colourful banners and festoons to welcome the mummy-son duo.
The ecstatic AL men were seen shouting welcome slogans and showering petals on Pleasure and Christine, his spouse, whereas they were going residence from the airport in a Pajero jeep. They waved to the cheering celebration group and eager folks on all facets of the road.
The colourfully embellished adjacent streets of Sudha Sadan wore a festive take into chronicle and tune, dance and welcoming slogans persevered unless that afternoon.
But her strive could no longer construct traction and Pleasure returned to the US after just a few months.
Pleasure all once more came to the limelight sooner than the 2014 one-sided parliamentary election.
On 23 July 2013, at an Iftar celebration gathering organised by Jubo League at Bangabandhu Avenue, Pleasure claimed “I even salvage knowledge that the Awami League will return to energy.”
His feedback sparked criticism forcing the AL leaders to reach relieve up with explanations to give protection to him from criticism. At a press conference, AL leaders clarified that Pleasure had supposed the celebration would catch if its lazy people turned packed with life all once more.
Attempting to like relevant
Pleasure is relieve all once more after his mother’s ouster in 2024.
He has been the significant source of data about his mother’s aspect of the details of the matter in which she left the nation as Hasina has no longer made any public appearances since her ouster.
Speaking to Newshour on the BBC World Carrier on 5 August, he stated his mother had been pondering about resigning for the reason that day sooner than and had left the nation for her salvage security after her family insisted.
He claimed his mother did now not resign as top minister so she is quiet the legitimate head of authorities.
But sooner than his notify, Bangladesh Military Chief Waker Uz Zaman confirmed earlier that day that Sheikh Hasina had resigned and left the nation.
Five days after his mother left Bangladesh, Pleasure spoke to Reuters and stated, “My mother never formally resigned. She did now not salvage the time.” He added that this supposed the formation of the intervening time authorities could perchance furthermore very effectively be “challenged in court”.
In some interviews after his mother’s ouster, Pleasure firstly commented that his family’s future in politics became once over. But later he changed his mind.
“I never had any political ambitions and became once settled in the US. However the trends in Bangladesh previously few days existing there could be a management vacuum. I had to step in for the sake of the celebration and I’m at the forefront now,” Pleasure stated whereas talking to Cases of India on August 9.
The next day, in an interview with one more Indian news outlet, NDTV, Pleasure stated he would favor in mind returning to Bangladesh and leading the AL.
But there’s no longer any trace of any preparation taken by his celebration men right here in Dhaka to welcome his return!
As of now, Pleasure on the opposite hand did now not return to Bangladesh.
