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Bangladesh president Mohammed Shahabuddin has accused erstwhile main advisor Muhammad Yunus of law lapses and alleged attempts to destabilise the state and the presidency during the interim authorities period, according to The Daily Star.In the interrogation with Bangla regular Kaler Kantho, Shahabuddin said Yunus failed to support constitutionally mandated communication, including not briefing him aft overseas visits.“The main advisor did not travel immoderate proviso of the constitution. Whenever helium went abroad, helium was expected to conscionable the president aft returning and pass maine successful penning astir the outcomes. He travelled overseas 14 to 15 times, but not erstwhile did helium pass me.
He ne'er came to spot me,” the president said.Shahabuddin said helium was kept “completely successful the dark” during the play and claimed that 2 of his planned visits, to Kosovo and Qatar, were blocked. Referring to the governmental climate, helium added, “In that situation, I did not person immoderate telephone telephone from Dr Yunus. He was neither successful favour of maine nor against me. Of course, I besides did not marque immoderate petition to him seeking help.”
Attempted removal
Alleging attempts to region him aft the 2024 wide uprising, the president said, “At 1 point, adjacent a conspiracy was made to bring a erstwhile main justness and spot him successful my spot done unconstitutional means,” adding that the justice declined, citing law constraints.
He described the October 22, 2024 protests extracurricular Bangabhaban arsenic a “terrifying night”, claiming mobs attempted to loot the statesmanlike residence earlier the concern was brought nether power with subject deployment.Shahabuddin said the equipped forces and leaders of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) supported law continuity. According to him, the 3 work chiefs told him: “You are the ultimate commandant of the equipped forces.
Your decision means the decision of the full equipped forces. We volition forestall that astatine immoderate cost.”
Pushed into isolation
The president further alleged that his bureau was deliberately isolated, including the withdrawal of the full Bangabhaban property helping pursuing a courtesy gathering with recently elected leaders of the Dhaka Reporters Unity.“Very shamelessly, 3 people, the property secretary, lawman property caput and adjunct property secretary, were withdrawn together,” helium said, adding that 2 long-serving photographers were besides removed. “We cannot adjacent contented a elemental property merchandise congratulating the nationalist cricket squad erstwhile they triumph an planetary match,” helium said, describing his bureau arsenic “completely handicapped.”He besides claimed that during the interim period, his photographs and messages were excluded from authorities supplements connected nationalist days, and that his portraits were removed from Bangladesh missions abroad.“That night, my photos were removed from astir each Bangladesh precocious commissions and consulates astir the world. That incidental was fundamentally an denotation oregon the archetypal measurement to region me,” helium said, adding that helium aboriginal lodged a written protestation with the overseas ministry.Despite what helium termed “humiliating situations,” Shahabuddin said helium remained steadfast to guarantee law continuity.
