Party of ousted Bangladeshi PM Hasina planning protest

islamabad, pakistan — 

The enactment of Bangladesh's ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina whitethorn soon statesman thoroughfare agitation against the interim authorities of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, according to a enactment leader.

"We are readying to show and commencement our governmental activities," Shafiul Alam Chowdhury, organizing caput of the Awami League, told VOA connected Friday.

Chowdhury is among dozens of Awami League leaders who fled Bangladesh aft a student-led wide uprising toppled Hasina's authorities successful August. The iron-fisted person was serving her 4th consecutive word erstwhile she was forced to resign connected August 5 and fly to India successful a subject helicopter.

Since the autumn of the regime, dozens of enactment leaders person been arrested, galore successful transportation with the convulsive crackdown connected protesters that killed hundreds crossed the state betwixt July and August. Thousands of Awami League workers and supporters person gone underground, fearing mob attacks.

On Wednesday, the interim authorities banned the Awami League's pupil wing, the Bangladesh Chhatra League, declaring it a violent organization.

Earlier this month, the Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal issued apprehension warrants for Hasina and 45 others linked with the ousted regime.

Speaking to VOA implicit the phone, Chowdhury said the enactment is moving to unite its ranks and is reaching retired to different like-minded governmental forces to motorboat protests against the interim government.

"After 2 weeks oregon 1 month, we tin move," the Awami League person said erstwhile asked however soon his enactment was readying to instrumentality to the streets.

Major governmental parties successful Bangladesh backmost the interim authorities docket to betterment institutions that they accidental the Awami League destroyed done monolithic governmental interference successful the past 15 years.

However, governmental parties are besides publically pushing the Yunus authorities to guarantee a swift instrumentality to democracy. One of the country's biggest governmental parties is dissatisfied with the advancement truthful far.

"This authorities is going a spot slow," said Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, secretary-general of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.

"The predetermination commission, they person resigned. But they [the interim government] person not formed the caller predetermination commission," Alamgir told VOA astatine his residence successful Dhaka earlier this month.

Ten commissions, comprising civilian nine activists, retired officials and academics, are tasked with proposing reforms successful cardinal areas including the judiciary, police, constitution, electoral system, wide media and labour rights.

Six of the commissions announced successful September indispensable taxable their proposals by December 31. However, reviewing those proposals, seeking governmental statement for them and implementing them whitethorn instrumentality respective months.

Alamgir, whose enactment has called retired the interim authorities for embarking connected reforms without a timetable, worries a hold successful elections volition prolong the governmental vacuum successful the country, giving the rival Awami League the accidental to regain mislaid governmental space.

"The fallen fascist Awami League, they person their enactment [base]. They are a precise big, aged governmental party, truthful they person enactment here. They volition besides get clip to consolidate and make problems here," seasoned person Alamgir told VOA.

Bangladesh's predetermination instrumentality requires the authorities to signifier a hunt committee that selects members for the predetermination commission. The interim authorities precocious announced it would travel the existing instrumentality but has not fixed a day for the enactment of specified a committee.

"Please effort to recognize that we are not a governmental force, and for the archetypal time, we are moving successful a group," said Asif Nazrul, Bangladesh's main instrumentality adviser, defending the interim government's dilatory progress.

"We don't person the indispensable experience. We person commitment, we person a hardworking attitude, we person integrity," Nazrul told VOA precocious past period astatine his authoritative residence successful Dhaka.

One of the large handicaps of the interim government, analysts said, is that it lacks a supportive information and administrative strategy due to the fact that overmuch of what is successful spot is from the past 15 years of Hasina's rule.

"The authorities is operating without having afloat power of the instrumentality enforcement and bureaucracy," governmental expert Zahed Ur Rahman said.

To escaped the strategy of the remnants of the Awami League, the interim authorities has been transferring and reassigning constabulary officers and bureaucrats successful and retired of the capital, Dhaka.

To illustration a people for Bangladesh and calm governmental nerves, Yunus' squad has been ramping up engagement with governmental parties. The Awami League truthful acold has been unopen retired of the consultations.

"They should beryllium fixed the governmental space. They should beryllium fixed the close to bash politics. They should besides beryllium fixed [a chance] to enactment successful elections successful future. That's what I agree." said Rahman, who is besides a subordinate of the electoral betterment commission.

But Rahman warned that bringing the Awami League to the array anytime soon could origin a backlash.

"Calling Awami League for [discussing] reforms, I think, volition person immoderate terrible absorption successful the society."

The Awami League is not funny successful sitting down with the interim authorities either, Chowdhury said.

"This [interim] authorities is wholly unconstitutional," helium said. "If we protestation them, show each implicit the country, this [interim] authorities volition beryllium nary more."