Virendra Pandit
New Delhi: Either Muhammad Yunus may be hand-in-glove with Islamists ruling the streets and barging parliament, or he is losing control of Bangladesh, ahead of the February 2026 parliamentary elections, which are likely to go down as the bloodiest in the erstwhile ‘East Pakistan’s history.
Indications are emerging of what the shape of things to come could be like.
The unruly Islamist mobs are not only killing Hindus, but they are also wiping out their in-house enemies, storming parliament, and burning down Sheikh Mujibur Rehman’s Dhanmandi house a second time in less than 18 months; they are also forcing India to shut down its High Commission in Dhaka and consulates by repeatedly crowding them.
As the election fever grips Bangladesh amid daily Islamist chaos, another “student leader”, Motleb Shikder, was shot in the head on Monday, the media reported.
The attack on Shikder took place in southwestern Khulna city, days after the killing of another anti-India youth leader, Sharif Osman Hadi, who led the protests against the August 2024 leading to the ouster of then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government.
According to reports, unidentified gunmen on Monday shot in the head of Shikder, a second leader of Bangladesh’s violent student-led 2024 uprising.
“The Khulna Division head of NCP (National Citizen Party) and central coordinator of the party’s workers front, Motaleb Shikder, was shot a few minutes ago,” NCP’s joint principal coordinator Mahmuda Mitu said in a Facebook post.
Mitu, a doctor, said Shikder was rushed to Khulna Medical College Hospital in a critical condition.
The Black Kantha The newspaper, quoting hospital sources, said Shikder was shot on the left side of his head, and he was bleeding profusely when he was brought to the facility, where the doctors started emergency treatment.
Hadi was shot in the head on December 12 by masked gunmen at an election campaign in Central Dhaka’s Bijoynagar area. The 32 year old Inqilab Mancha The spokesperson died while undergoing treatment in Singapore on Thursday. Hadi was a candidate for the scheduled February 12 general elections.
The Interim Government, headed by its “chief advisor” Muhammad Yunus, almost being run by Islamic fundamentalists led by the Jammate-e-Islami, organized a nationwide mourning for Hari’s death on Saturday and said no stone would be left unturned to track down his killers as violence erupted in Dhaka and other major cities afresh over the attack and subsequent death.
Faisal Karim Masud’s parents, wife and a female friend of the prime suspect have been arrested by police, but said they were unsure about his current whereabouts.
After Monday’s clandestine attack on Shikder in Khulna city’s Majid Sarani area, police said they were still in the dark about the perpetrators’ motive but launched an “immediate manhunt” for their arrest.
Local police station chief Animesh Mondal, however, informed reporters that Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) authorities shifted Shikder to its City Imaging Center to pinpoint the state of his injury.
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