“Regime change in Bangladesh? Biden’s Arab Spring desire in Dhaka no better than Obama’s Middle Eastern nightmare”, First Post, December 15, 2023:
“When it comes to democracy, the United States often acts like a jilted lover. It is obsessively in love with the notion. And when spurned, it turns crazy. Possessed by the idea, it wants to have it at any cost — even by resorting to undemocratic means. The result has often been catastrophic, to say the least. For both the US and the country bullied into adopting the idea of democracy.
As Bangladesh gears up for elections early next month, the ‘democracy-exporting’ Americans are on the overdrive again. They are cajoling, coercing and even confronting the Sheikh Hasina government to hold a “free and fair” election where all political parties, irrespective of their ideological moorings, fight for people’s mandate.
The American move gains significance as Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh National Party (BNP), the country’s main Opposition party, has said that it would contest the elections only if a neutral caretaker government is installed before the elections……”
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