P. K. Balachandran
Even after restoration of calm, Sheikh Hasina regime finds pretexts to continue repression and student agitators and opposition parties vow to continue struggle for restoration of democracy.
It is not “curtains down” yet on the month-long violent agitation in Bangladesh over quotas in recruitment for white-collar government jobs.
Though violence ceased after the Supreme Court reduced the controversial quota for special categories from 56% to 7%, arrests of student leaders and opposition activists continue unabated.
The government cited the possibility of Bangladeshi students replicating the 2022 Sri Lankan mass action called “Aragalaya” in which government offices in Colombo were stormed and occupied, crippling the State machinery and forcing the President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country.
“There was a Sri Lanka-style plot to occupy Ganabhaban, the official residence of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, on July 19,” claimed the ruling Awami League’s General Secretary Obaidul Quader.
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