From Bangabandhu to Sheikh Hasina, that same old script

Opinion
The difference between truth and lies is that telling the truth doesn’t require any effort. Telling a lie requires careful thought and careful measurement to make it believable.

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This is the locker (again called a vault in an established daily) of Agrani Bank! Where the news of Sheikh Hasina receiving 832 tons of gold ornaments has been published, this big difference has been caught.

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What does it say in general terms? Sheikh Hasina’s state residence was protected by various levels of security including the army, SSF, police, and BGB. Common sense says that expensive gold ornaments should be kept there. Why would she keep a gunman in a bank instead?

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Secondly: What is 832 bhori or about 10 kg of ornaments doing in a 9 by 14 by 23 inch locker? Several of the ornaments displayed on it also have inscriptions and stones. It is only possible to keep them by making a bar.

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Thirdly, it is said, ‘With the permission of the court, the two lockers were broken into in the presence of representatives of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), the Executive Magistrate, the concerned officials of CIC and officials of Agrani Bank.’

According to the law, there are two keys for each locker, one with the person renting the locker and the other with the bank. To open the locker, two people need keys. Apart from the key that Sheikh Hasina has, to open the locker, a duplicate key has to be made. Therefore, a diary and office memorandum have to be passed at the police station for the duplicate key. It is not known that these procedures have been followed properly. They have broken.

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A question has been raised again in a paper – ‘Was the gold recovered from the locker shown in Sheikh Hasina’s affidavit’? That is, the last three elections are not over because they were illegal, this time her election-time affidavit will have to be pulled out and played.

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The same incident happened today in 1975, when the newspapers and magazines of that time published a lot of news about the wealth found there after the assassination of Bangabandhu and his family. The thing is, why would Sheikh Mujib, wearing pajamas and Punjabi, have a 4-pound tire weighing his daughter-in-law in his house? Those would be in the houses of bureaucrats, policemen, businessmen, and officials!

Yet, in the homes of at least 5 million people in this city, there are 51,000 baht worth of gold ornaments. The previous DC of Jamalpur received a gold crown as a gift during his farewell and wore it on his head for a photo session. It was worth at least 100 baht.

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From August 2024 to August 2025, Sheikh Hasina did not seem politically challenging to the interim government. Whenever she went on a global campaign by giving interviews to dozens of influential media outlets around the world, the interim think tank started counting the days. Despite being tried in the ICT court and sentenced to death, she could not stop her political campaign and failed to confront her politically, and now attempts are being made to assassinate her character.

In the public mind, there is an attempt to discredit him by using the information about how much money he owned, how much money he spent on luxuries, and how large his landholdings were.

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Earlier, it was alleged that ‘5 billion dollars were taken’ from the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant. The entire power plant was worth 13 billion dollars with the help of the Russian nuclear energy corporation ‘Rosatom’. After this allegation, Rosatom directly challenged it. President Vladimir Putin himself was offended because Rosatom is a state institution.

The interim authorities did not accept that challenge. They just remained silent.

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After this, the real Tulip Siddiqui’s corruption was publicized. Tulip resigned and followed the rules. That allegation has not yet been proven.

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In August 2024, they looted Ganabhaban, thinking that they would get hundreds of billions of taka, gold coins, and many expensive things. They were disappointed to see the common Bengali family’s useful articles and luxuries. Among them, the most outrageous was the undergarment of an elderly woman. The filth and incivility that was committed was broadcast around the world and revealed the identity of Bengali taste to the world.

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Individualistic filth and rudeness are not new in the political culture of the subcontinent. What is new is that Bangladesh has always been one stick ahead of other countries! We saw a ‘rude, vulgar, vulgar, perverted’ Shah Moazzem during the Ershad era. Now, in this interim period, ten or five ‘Shah Moazzems’ come out when you shake out the lungi. Now, no one hesitates to speak obscene and indecent words in public. Young people in their 25s and 30s have spread an ugly, erotic culture by mixing ‘F’ class, ‘L’ class, and ‘M’ class. The fools are getting ecstatic by hearing them again. They are also proudly promoting those sexual perversions in the media. The civilized people have no worries about that.

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Less than 24 hours after the gold jewelry recovery project was completed, the ACC said, “The 832 bhoris (9,707.16 grams) of gold found after opening two lockers do not belong to ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina alone. The documents reviewed showed that all that gold was deposited in the names of Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, daughter Saima Wazed and family members. In addition to gold jewelry, this gold includes a gold boat and a deer.”

That means even if the whole family “has a boat and deer”! It means they have made a great discovery!

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Are they trying to assassinate Sheikh Hasina’s character after failing to confront her politically? By doing so, they might be able to mislead a group of vulnerable people, but will they be able to mislead everyone? The answer is – no, they won’t be able to. Rather, they will continue to play games themselves.

-Manjurul Haque

November 27, 2025