In Washington, Bangladesh’s former top diplomat AK Abdul Momen unleashes a fierce takedown of the nation’s February 12 elections, dubbing them a ‘pre-packaged fraud’ devoid of trust. Via IANS, he beseeches the US to withhold endorsement, decrying the barring of dominant parties and broad coalitions.
Sixty to seventy percent public favorites, including 12 allied outfits, are locked out, turning elections into an insider’s game for constitutional tweaks and value shifts. Momen insists this won’t foster stability, politics, or economic rebound—but amplify ruin in a country already investment-starved.
Annual unemployment swells by 2 million desperate youths; prolonged unrest crushes dreams. Momen accuses Yunus’s interim team of power abdication to hardcore Islamists, spawning rights violations, corruption spikes, and public torment under ‘incompetent, powerless’ rule.
America must speak out, he urges: reject this democratic charade publicly, building on no-observer stances by US and UN. Amid distractions like anti-India campaigns—falsely painting prior deals as treasons—Momen laments lost diplomatic balance, now China-leaning and India-hostile, a recipe for South Asian disaster.
Jihadists, borderless and faithless, burrow in to dismantle Bangladesh, he alerts. As history beckons infamy, Momen’s Washington clarion call rallies for international resolve to avert collapse.