After the sudden departure of Sheikh Hasina from Bangladesh, her party leaders have been receiving the raw end of the stick by the protesters.
It is reported that 29 members of the Awami League have died in the later protests, and some others have been arrested. In this regard, the question that lingers in many people’s minds is whether the country’s oldest party will be able to weather the storm.
On Monday (August 5), a seismic took place in Bangladesh when prime minister Sheikh Hasina, besieged by violent demonstrations, resigned and fled to India.
She left for India peacefully within hours after the country‘s worst electoral debacle in the general election, and she is still in India. Her son, Sajeeb Wazed Joy, has declared that judiciary-rejected premier Hasina, 77, is politically dead for ever.
Thus, it is very possible that Bangladesh is going to face long-term political blindness soon as the Awami League, which was a party founded by Sheikh Mujibur Ahmed, the founder of Bangladesh, and Hasina’s father, is into political darkness at the moment.
In this context, we pause on the analysis of the factors that may prevent the revival of the party and its return to previous positions.
Leaders of the Awami League murdered, offices vandalized
The entire week, Bangladesh was in violence and turmoil right from Sunday. Picketeers have been on rampage, burning tires, leveling nexuses, occupying Hasina’s official home, the Ganabhaban, and ransacking it. Still, the protesters have been going on with their demonstrations, vandalizing structures, even after Hasina left.
In such a situation, there are allegations that the dead bodies of 29 leaders of the Awami League and their families have been found in various parts of the country. As many as 10 people were reported killed in violence in Satkhira after Hasina resigned and left for home on Monday.
Several leaders of the Awami League had reported that their houses and business establishments were attacked, and their properties had been lest and burned, The Dhaka Tribune.
