Bangladesh Devastated in 18 Months Under Yunus’s Deception

❐ BD Digest Desk

The BNP government has termed the ‘July National Charter (Constitutional Reform) Implementation Order, 2025’ and the ‘Referendum Ordinance, 2025’ issued during the interim government of Dr. Yunus as ‘completely illegal and invalid’. Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed said, ‘The July Charter Implementation Order is a document of the interim government’s endless deception and national fraud. This order has no legal validity and is illegal from the beginning.’

The Home Minister’s statement paints a picture of the destruction of politics during the 18-month rule of the Yunus government.

We can now see in the National Assembly the deception that the Yunus government has committed against the people of the country in the name of political reforms. Dr. Yunus tried to create disunity and division among the political parties. The deception of the interim government in the economic sector has been exposed before the nation today. In the name of reforms in the financial sector, he has completely destroyed the country’s economy.

In the last 18 months, prosperous Bangladesh has been bloody and scarred by his hands. Bangladesh, which has become an international role model in terms of development, has now fallen into the ranks of war-torn Libya and Syria. The common people of the country have therefore called Yunus’s rule ‘Ayam-e-Yunusiya’ on social media. Yunus has also been identified as an ‘enemy of the people’.

The main driving force of Bangladesh’s economy is the private sector. During Yunus’s rule, a terrible wave of destruction of the private sector took place. Thousands of factories were closed. Millions of workers became unemployed. Hundreds of factories were burned down by mob terrorism. The interim government did not take any initiative to stop these mobs, but rather encouraged mob terrorism. Private sector entrepreneurs were harassed with outrageous false cases. Extortion under Yunus’s umbrella created panic in the private sector. Many businessmen closed their businesses for fear of mob terrorism and extortion.

Under the leadership of Ahsan H. Mansur, a close associate of Yunus, the banking sector was made investment-resistant. Due to contractionary monetary policy, high interest rates, political uncertainty and deteriorating law and order situation, domestic and foreign investment almost came to a standstill in one and a half years. Without increasing investment, new jobs were not created. According to economists, this is the biggest deception of the interim government. The decision to dissolve the boards of directors of controversial banks and form new boards, the initiative to stop loan irregularities and the decision to merge five weak Islamic banks to form a ‘Unified Islamic Bank’ did more harm than good to the economy.

Depositors of the five merged banks are now on the streets for their deposit money. The amount of defaulted loans was much higher when Yunus took power than when he left.

Another deception of Yunus was the alleged investigation into corruption and money laundering against the private sector. There is no explanation on the basis on which 11 individuals and institutions were accused of money laundering. In the name of investigation, the Yunus government tried to tarnish the image of the private sector through a media trial. This was also a deception of the nation.

Until now, the nation has heard about the political and economic fraud of Dr. Yunus’ government. But now, the picture of his fraud in all areas is gradually becoming clear.

Wherever problems and chaos are seen after the BNP government took office, Yunus’s deception is being exposed.

There is a terrible health crisis going on across the country with ‘measles’. Measles vaccination was stopped during the Yunus government. According to the government’s expanded immunization program, from 2017 to 2023, the vaccination rate for children aged 12 months, including measles, was a minimum of 89 and a maximum of more than 103 percent. Of this, the lowest was 89.4 percent in 2018. And the highest was 103.6 percent in 2022. But in 2024, the vaccination rate decreased, dropping to 86.6 percent.

And last year, i.e. 2025, this rate decreased significantly to 59.6 percent. That is, the regular vaccination program was in place and the high vaccination rate was maintained at least until 2023. The country’s health sector is being deceived today due to one wrong move after another after Yunus Ghanishta and his organization’s former employee Nurjahan Begum became health advisors.

Dr. Yunus made another close friend and former employee of his, Ashiq Chowdhury, the head of the Board of Investment despite having no qualifications in the relevant field. His qualification was skydiving. To attract foreign investors, an investment conference was held in Dhaka under the supervision of Ashiq Chowdhury. Presentations were made in fluent English and were made to impress. Later, it was found that no foreign businessmen or institutions came. A few people were just dressed up as foreign businessmen and had a photo session.

Despite claims of several investment promises, virtually no investment has come in. Although the focus was on handing over various sectors of the country to foreigners throughout the period.

Ignoring the experts’ opinions, the interim government decided to sign a contract with DP World of the United Arab Emirates to operate the New Mooring Container Terminal (NCT) at Chittagong Port. However, DP World backed out at the last minute. Workers and employees were forced to call a strike in protest of the decision. The government took punitive measures against the protesters.

On November 17, the government signed an agreement with Danish company APM Terminals to build a container terminal in Laldia Char, Chittagong. On the same day, an agreement was signed with Swiss company Medlog to build a naval terminal in Pangaon. The Yunus government lied and cheated about these agreements.

In the end, the interim government deceived the nation by making several agreements with foreigners. Trade agreements with the United States and defense agreements with China were signed while keeping the entire nation in the dark.

There is a lot of criticism from all quarters about the J2G agreement with China to set up a drone factory, the agreement to purchase JF-17 Thunder from Pakistan and J-10 CE fighter jets from China, the purchase of Eurofighter Typhoon from a European consortium and submarines from South Korea, the procurement of T-129 attack helicopters from Turkey and Black Hawk helicopters from the United States, and the defense agreement with Japan. Apart from this, the decision to purchase 25 Boeing aircraft from the United States was also taken into account by the Yunus government.

The Yunus government’s hasty approval of various projects before leaving was another deception. In January, 64 projects worth 1 lakh 6 thousand 993 crore taka were hastily approved. Out of these, 40 projects worth 79 thousand 356 crore taka are completely new. In a period of one and a half years, this government has taken up 135 new projects, the total cost of which is estimated at 2 lakh 3 thousand crore taka. In 18 months, 135 new projects worth 2 lakh crore taka have been taken up, of which 38 percent of the projects were taken up in Yunus’ own district, Chittagong.

However, no development projects have been taken up for 21 districts. Not only Dr. Yunus, but other advisors, especially student advisors, have also been given preferential treatment in allocating funds to the districts.

Until his departure, the law and order situation did not improve at all, but rather deteriorated day by day. In the one and a half years of Yunus’ government, there were several thousand mob incidents in the country. The Law and Arbitration Center says that at least 300 people died in mob violence alone. The number of mob deaths increased in 2025 compared to 2024. In 2025 alone, 643 unclaimed bodies were recovered in Dhaka city and buried and cremated in various cemeteries in the capital. The rivers have become ‘dumping stations’ for criminals.

In 2025, 43 bodies were recovered from the river every day. It is unknown how many bodies drowned or were washed away. Robberies, thefts, beatings were commonplace in broad daylight. Yet Dr. Yunus, taking power, said, ‘The law and order situation will improve quickly.’ This was also another limitless deception of the interim government.

At the beginning of taking power, Dr. Yunus was introduced as an ‘international player’, but in reality we could not celebrate any of his goals. There is no significant diplomatic success with any country except Pakistan. He said, ‘Rohingyas will celebrate Eid this year in Myanmar.’ It goes without saying that this is not happening in practice. On the contrary, at least two hundred thousand Rohingyas have entered Bangladesh anew. 70 thousand Saudi Rohingyas are getting Bangladeshi passports.

One of our girls’ skulls was blown off by the Arakan Army’s bullets. Even though relations with India have reached a low point, they have not been able to reduce import dependence, but rather have poisoned the relationship with words. In the past one and a half years, not a single country has been able to shift its visa center from Delhi to Dhaka, resulting in increased suffering for students wishing to study abroad. Most of the countries where Bangladeshi citizens could enter without a visa have banned entry without a visa, while most of the remaining countries have reduced the rate of visa issuance.

The US has imposed a ban on visas. The quality of Bangladeshi passports has dropped to the level of Yemen, Afghanistan or Palestine. Despite traveling abroad 14 times in one and a half years and 11 times in the first 12 months, the ‘Yunus Magic’ has practically failed. It was a betrayal of the nation even in the name of diplomacy.

From the success of Grameen Bank to the Nobel Prize, Dr. Yunus’ rise, women have been the main drivers behind it. But during his rule, women have gone through the most dangerous times. The dangers of women in public have increased compared to before, fear has been created about clothing, all this has been done by the extremists of the society; this class has risen massively during this time; but the government has not taken any effective action against them.

Yunus had a golden opportunity to unite the country that was gradually dividing and become a national hero. Instead of using this opportunity that came after many years, he clearly divided the country into three parts. He has imprisoned at least 500,000 Trinamool people in two phases of operations called ‘Devil Hunt’. He has deprived them of the right to get bail. The United Nations has called these acts as crimes against humanity.

In July, the people of the country wanted a campus free of politics. But in the last one and a half years of the Yunus government, no impartial VC has been appointed in any university. There has been no progress in education. Children have not been able to return to the classroom. Teachers have been harassed by students all over the country. Even though half of the year has passed, students have not received new books. Not to mention corruption in the quality of books and printing books on low-quality paper! Although it is said that the media has enjoyed sufficient freedom, the data and data of the Yunus government for one and a half years do not show that.

Almost all media outlets have been filled with people of their choice. 30 journalists are still in jail. The government has filled 52 media outlets with people of their choice. There have also been incidents of attacks and seizure of media outlets. The inaction of the interim government in the incidents of violence and oppression in the media will haunt Dr. Yunus for the rest of his life.

During Yunus’s tenure, the heroic freedom fighters who risked their lives to liberate the country in 1971 were stripped of their shoes. Thousands of monuments, sculptures, murals, and memorials to the Liberation War, the Father of the Nation, and the four national leaders have been destroyed across the country. Bangabandhu’s house, the Liberation War Memorial Museum, and the Independence Complex in Meherpur, among other important structures, have been demolished with the open incitement of Yunus and his associates. The nation has even witnessed brutal incidents such as vandalizing the tombs of heroic freedom fighters and setting their graves on fire.

The way freedom fighters have been humiliated in the past year and a half, they have been made to walk around with shoe chains around their necks, they have been beaten in various places, house number 32 has been demolished in stages, and Bangabandhu has been harassed in the way he has been harassed has never happened before in the past 54 years.

The Yunus government has also deceived the nation on sports. The decision not to participate in the World Cup cricket was another chapter in the endless deception of the interim government. The people of Bangladesh have only been deceived for the past 18 months. Thank you to the Home Minister for presenting this deception in the National Parliament.