Fire Yunus and his team

Opinion

Yes. I am telling the people of Bangladesh, you should fire Muhammad Yunus and his team and bring them to justice.

Why? Let’s talk about it.

 

1.

Today, Thursday, the Awami League’s lockdown program is being observed. Some small groups of the Jamaat-NCP nexus are carrying out picketing and protest activities at various places . A video from Rangpur showed Jamaat workers raising political slogans against the farmers’ demand for fair crop prices :

“Potato or referendum,

“Referendum is referendum.”

This video is one of the many proofs that the financial interests of workers and farmers or the evaluation of labor are not important to Jamaat-e-Islam. Their idea about the dignity of women’s work is that women do not want to give alms but want equal financial benefits, which is why the Ameer of Jamaat has disrespected women’s labor and hung the national slogan “Women will get eight hours’ pay for working five hours” in front of women’s noses. All this proves that the main goal for them is to collect votes and spread political influence . Bringing Jamaat to power and crippling all the people of Bangladesh by hitting their own feet with an axe is the same.

According to analysts, their Islamic State movement is not just a political movement; rather, it is a self-interested movement , where religion and politics are combined into a business-industry. This is how their politics are conducted.

The immense masses of the country, the working class, and the peasant families are victims of their selfish tactics. One of our goals should be to free the people of the country from this.

What does the situation of the last year say? Jamaat-BNP and the newly formed parties are not concerned with the development of the country and making the difficult reality of life of the common people bearable. They want to come to power and eat the bananas and radishes.

They do not even care about what is good for the country. They have handed over the country to Pakistan, calling it a Muslim state. As a result, the country is running as a pawn of an enemy state.  The political interests of the Jamaat are very harmful to the country, harmful to the nation. The BNP, as its ally, has increased this damage hundreds of times.  Experts believe that this issue is a big challenge for the Bangladesh state, civil society and the people , not only that, it has created a big challenge for the entire South Asian subcontinent. This is why Bangladesh is being isolated from the whole world. If awareness and coordination is not created among the people in this regard, the general public will be the most affected.

This referendum call is the culmination of the Jamaat’s political physical presence and demonstration of rallying power that the public has seen in the past year . In the meantime, they wanted to come to power through a PR method that did not work. However, they are trying hard to influence public opinion, threaten political opponents, and increase solidarity among their supporters by displaying visible power .

 

2.

 Let’s look at the Jamaat’s demand for a referendum in the light of the law.

2.1. The Constitution of Bangladesh clearly identifies and establishes the people as the source of all power in the Republic. According to Article 7 :

“Sovereign power resides in the people.”
This means that no referendum or general election is the only legitimate means for forming a government or making laws, except in accordance with the Constitution. The election of representatives through parliamentary voting in parliament is essential for forming a government or making laws .

2.2.
Currently, there is no direct referendum law in Bangladesh , that is, there is no system for the people to participate in direct voting on any issue. In the process of making laws or determining policies in the parliament, the work must be done according to the constitution . To implement the “referendum” initiative, specific legal procedures, approval of the Election Commission and regulations are required. Without strict management , government and administrative preparations , voter lists, surveillance and security measures, referendums cannot be implemented. That situation does not exist in the country.

3. The current political situation is an environment of political uncertainty and violence. On the one hand, the Election Commission is criticized for not being effectively impartial . On the other hand, all but two of the political parties are newly formed, many of which are not in a position to get registered. They are using the July Coat Movement, which was actually nothing more than a violent coup for a violent change of government, as a trump card. With these two tools, violence and protest, some people with the same appearance are continuing anarchy on the streets. They are using these as their playing cards. As a result, the security and participation of ordinary citizens during the elections is not guaranteed in reality .

In this situation, it is not possible to conduct the referendum safely and legally .

The political parties that staged the violent coup in July demanding a referendum and their various small teams, who are also involved in party and personal disputes, and various legal crimes. Jamaat and its young supporter cadre group Islami Chhatra Shibir itself carry the legacy of crimes against humanity as one of the partners in the genocide committed in Bangladesh in 1971. We have been hearing since the nineties that Jamaat uses the women of the Islamic student organization to satisfy the sexual appetites of their male members.

Now they want to use the referendum as a tool to achieve political goals.

In practice, despite Muhammad Yunus’s address to the nation, the ethics and constitutional transparency of the alleged voting process remain questionable.

Finally, a few words cannot be left unsaid.

First, from a legal perspective, political referendums by a few factions are not the main legitimate channel of power according to the constitution. Second, the government is unable to implement any work due to lack of procedural and administrative preparation . It is not possible for this government to hold elections and referendums at the same time. Third, if there is political violence and bias, the results of the referendum lose their legitimacy . Currently, among the parties that want to participate in the elections, all the parties including BNP are Jamaat-linked parties, the fourteen main opposition parties are now banned and they have to go to jail if they go out to implement any political activities.

This situation is a situation that discourages healthy and fair elections, and this situation is being deliberately maintained with the help of the government. The government led by Muhammad Yunus has failed to prove its good intentions in holding elections and in doing good for the country. No matter how many speeches he makes, he and his government have lost the trust of the people. He and everyone in his government should resign immediately.

Rather than prolonging the damage to the country and its people, they should take responsibility for all the damage they have done and walk away, which would be proof that they still have some humanity and morality, some responsibility towards the country and its people. However, if they want to show the countrymen that they are on par with Jamaat-e-Islam and Hizb ut Tahrir in terms of morality and ethics, then there is nothing more to say. I would advise them to prepare themselves to accept the fate they have made with their own hands.

Otherwise, I will tell the people of Bangladesh, “Fire him, fire Yunus.”

 

-Jahanara Nuri
Sweden, November 13, 2025