The cycle of time and karma has been rather short in Bangladesh lately. Not too long ago, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Jamaat-e-Islami were bitterly complaining about then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaving no political space for the Opposition, jailing dissenting leaders, rigging polls, and making elections a farcical exercise.

The allegations stuck. Her government was overthrown in an extremely bloody regime-change operation on August 5, 2024.

Today, the same allegations have come to haunt the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government. A despotic and blanket ban on the Awami League (AL) is looking increasingly vengeful, self-serving, and untenable on the part of Yunus and his backers — student leaders and Jamaat.

If they go to elections as promised in February without AL, they would be no different than what they accused Hasina of being.

To top it, the deposed PM has lashed out against the current government in an........

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