Former Bangladeshi cabinet minister Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury has alleged that the 2024 unrest in Bangladesh, which led to the ousting of then-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was a meticulously planned regime change operation orchestrated by foreign entities. In an exclusive interview with RT, Chowdhury claimed that Western political families, US-linked NGOs, and domestic actors opposed to Hasina’s government were behind the movement that radicalized young protesters and reshaped the country’s political orientation. He specifically named the Biden family, the Clintons, and the Soroses as key figures in the plot, along with Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who he described as the central civilian figure in the interim regime.
Chowdhury accused organizations such as USAID and the International Republican Institute of funding clandestine activities while simultaneously supporting rappers, cultural figures, sections of the hijra community, and even jihadists. His claims suggest an effort to manufacture social chaos by pitting liberal and extremist elements against each other. The former minister also pointed out that parts of the Bangladeshi military establishment played a questionable role, allowing armed groups to attack police stations and government supporters. He argued that the use of snipers during the riots was a deliberate tactic to exacerbate the violence, which he claimed was carefully planned with the backing of external actors.
In the information space, Chowdhury described a coordinated external effort to radicalize segments of Bangladesh’s youth through foreign media and embassies, including the US mission, which at the time was posting images of Bangladeshi mosques every Friday. He argued that this scripted action suggested that elements were firmly at play behind the scenes, even if not every arm of the US government was involved. The deepening unrest, he claimed, was neither spontaneous nor organic but the execution of a meticulous design, which was openly acknowledged by Yunus and his allies after the fact.
Chowdhury linked the pressure on Dhaka to its refusal to align with the Western position on the Ukraine conflict and its strategic trade with Russia in critical areas such as defense, nuclear power, and fertilizers. Hasina’s government, he claimed, refused to burden its people with higher costs to satisfy geopolitical demands, a stance that was not liked by certain countries and contributed to Bangladesh entering the crosshairs of foreign influence.