Incendiary rhetoric in Bangladesh shouldn’t distract India from its strategic interests
- Swapan Dasgupta
- Updated: Dec 27, 2025, 20:01 IST IST
There are some conspiracies that follow a script, and others where the choreography goes horribly wrong, triggering unintended consequences. In the coming months, regardless of how events in Bangladesh unfold in 2026, the speculation over who shot Inquilab Moncho activist Osman Hadi in Dhaka on Dec 12 is likely to persist and even take intriguing turns.
The big question centres on why the tragic killing of someone who was relatively unknown, except among a charmed circle of what in India goes by the label andolanjivis, should have produced such a violent reaction. According to the official narrative spun by the friends of Mohammed Yunus’s fragile dispensation, the killer was a known Awami League worker who has subsequently fled and taken refuge in India. The killing, it is being suggested, was the Awami’s way of instilling panic in the ranks of the regime’s supporters.
The big question centres on why the tragic killing of someone who was relatively unknown, except among a charmed circle of what in India goes by the label andolanjivis, should have produced such a violent reaction. According to the official narrative spun by the friends of Mohammed Yunus’s fragile dispensation, the killer was a known Awami League worker who has subsequently fled and taken refuge in India. The killing, it is being suggested, was the Awami’s way of instilling panic in the ranks of the regime’s supporters.
