Three days after Hasina fled to Delhi, toppled by mass protests, an interim government was sworn in to lead Bangladesh. Headed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mohammad Yunus, the ministry had the difficult task of stabilising a post-revolution Bangladesh as well as holding polls to bring in a new government.
On Thursday, with the first post-Hasina elections, the Interim Government’s term will be coming to an end.
To understand its record in office, Scroll sat down with Yunus’ press secretary, Shafiqul Alam at his residence in Dhaka.
Alam has been the government’s principal spokesperson and one of its most prominent faces. In a nearly hour-long interview, he talks to Scroll about his government’s performance, his views on the Indian media, justifies the banning of the Awami League and tells us why he disapproved of what he calls Hasina’s excessive reliance on India.
Here are edited excerpts from the conversation.
How would you judge the performance of the interim government over the last one and a half years?
It’s been brilliant, I think. Professor Yunus did an amazing job. He oversaw a big recovery of the economy. He brought peace and stability. The government has done widespread reforms. To every segment, every vital sector of the economy, he has introduced reforms. There were legal reforms...
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