Muhammad Yunus should leave, ask all to fight polls… only way out, India can help: Awami League leader

As Home Minister you were successful complaint of interior security. Didn’t you spot this coming?

When constabulary stations are burning and the constabulary go inactive, the federation tin bash thing but conscionable witnesser and number the dead. It’s the constabulary that protects the civilians. But if the constabulary itself are paralyzed, what volition happen? I would accidental it was a associated coup. A associated coup by Islamic terrorists and the Army.

Evidently, determination was a immense quality failure. As erstwhile Home Minister bash you admit this?

I hold determination was an quality failure, whether intentionally oregon otherwise. But it was besides an Army coup. The Army has a peculiar quality unit, the DGFI (Director General Forces Intelligence). They study straight to the Prime Minister. The National Security Intelligence besides reports straight to the Prime Minister. Even the constabulary quality part reports to the Prime Minister. It is lone the summary of the quality reports that comes to the Home Minister.

Do you admit that your enactment made immoderate cardinal mistakes that acceptable disconnected resentment?

I shall not accidental mistakes but, yes, we took a agelong clip to instrumentality decisions to reorganise our party. That is the thing. After 2 years, caller leaders should travel up. But we could not prime the leaders successful owed course.

Are you successful interaction with your enactment president Sheikh Hasina?

I cannot conscionable her but I tin telephone her, speech astir problems and question directions. I was with her astir until the midnight of August 4. The constabulary main was there. The Army Chief was determination and helium assured the Prime Minister that thing volition happen, that we volition power the situation. He said your extortion is my responsibility. I americium witnesser to each this. I had asked him again: are you taking afloat work and helium said yes.  Then I asked the constabulary chief, who was nether my command, that helium should freely sermon with the Army and that everything should beryllium normal. But you person seen what happened connected August 5.

Awami League workers are successful hiding outside; galore successful Bangladesh are down bars. How bash you code the situation of keeping up their morale?

The morale of the Awami League workers is precise high. They cannot deliberation of a aboriginal without Sheikh Hasina. She is the 1 who changed Bangladesh. And since she came backmost to powerfulness successful 2008, she has changed the economy, she has changed the subject of Bangladesh.

What bash you expect India to do? How tin India help?

I was a Commander for the state fighters truthful I cognize what India has done for Bangladesh successful 1971. I recognise the information that India has ever been determination to assistance Bangladesh. Now India tin assistance america successful a diplomatic way. Our courts are paralysed. The pleaders of the Awami League cannot spell to the courts. The judges person each been re-appointed. So the archetypal happening is that diplomatic unit and a large dependable should beryllium raised truthful that courts commencement functioning again. India tin assistance successful this.

What’s the situation successful ensuring the information of your household and the families of different Awami League leaders?

My lone lad is successful jail… galore of my relatives are not successful a bully place. My lad is successful a jailhouse successful Kashimpur wherever we erstwhile utilized to detain terrorists. Every fewer days, idiosyncratic successful the contiguous strategy goes and asks them wherever I americium located. And lawsuit aft lawsuit is being lodged against me.

There are astir 290 execution cases against me. This indispensable beryllium a record, possibly adjacent an planetary record. In 54 cases, the idiosyncratic who was expected to person been murdered, person travel backmost alive…In these cases, our erstwhile Prime Minister and I and respective different leaders are each named.

Are you acceptable to spell backmost and look the regularisation of law? Is the Awami League acceptable to combat elections?

I americium not frightened to spell back. But that is lone if the regularisation of instrumentality is restored, if the judges tin perceive cases (freely and fearlessly) and our pleaders look for us. We judge successful elections, we volition decidedly combat for elections if we tin each spell there…

With Sheikh Hasina successful exile and astir of the Awami League elder enactment underground, however hard volition it beryllium for the enactment to galvanize its forces?

Nothing is impossible. I judge it is possible. And I judge wrong a precise abbreviated time, everything volition change. I person seen Bangladesh since its inception, I person seen the Bangladeshi people, and it is my steadfast content that we volition beryllium capable to flooded this concern precise soon. We don’t cognize wherever galore of our leaders are…but if commencement the struggle, we commencement demonstrating, they volition travel guardant again.

I person crossed 75 years of age, I judge I americium present successful my bonus life. I americium acceptable to instrumentality the risk. I judge the young leaders of the Awami League, too, are acceptable to look the challenge. It is the clip for the young leaders to travel forward.

What has been the relation of the media successful this turmoil?

The media is wholly nether their control.  The media cannot remark connected anything. They cannot rise their dependable for everything. They are soundless now. I judge if our person Sheikh Hasina asks everyone to travel forward, it volition decidedly happen.

What’s the connection from Sheikh Hasina erstwhile you talk to her?

I spoke to her 3 days ago. Her connection is: you inquire each the leaders to enactment agreed and that we volition decidedly flooded the concern successful a precise abbreviated time.

What’s your connection to Muhammad Yunus who is caput of the interim Government.

He has nary authorization to beryllium connected the chair, helium is not a leader, not a governmental figure. A precise unusual happening has happened to our country. Bangladesh has go a unusual example. Yunus should permission his presumption and inquire each governmental parties, including the Awami League, to combat elections and reconstruct democracy. That is the lone mode out.