The killing of student leader and rising political player Osman Hadi in Dhaka has plunged Bangladesh into a crisis. This was precisely the purpose of the perpetrators that the majority of people in Bangladesh see as being supported by India and the Awami League.
Elections due to take place in Bangladesh on January 22 were cancelled abruptly on January 11. The country’s caretaker government, headed by president Iajuddin Ahmed, resigned at the same time and a new caretaker government, headed by Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed, governor of the State Bank, was sworn in.w
As Bangladesh aid donors met in Dhaka on November 4, they got a glimpse of the problems confronting the country. The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) held a noisy rally in the capital condemning the regime’s performance.
