Now Adviser Asif posts video claiming army chief was hesitant of Yunus appointment as CA
Earlier in the day, Hasnat Abdullah shared a 28-second trailer of the video Asif posted
Youth and Sports Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan has claimed that Bangladesh Army Chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman had expressed reservations about appointing Muhammad Yunus as the chief adviser (CA) after the Awami League government fell in the mass uprising.
In a 17-minute video published on his Facebook profile today (21 March) with the title "Interview with Asif Mahmud on the process of forming an interim government", Asif was seen as saying that the army chief accepted the students' decision to have Yunus installed as the CA with 'heavy heart' after former prime minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled to India on 5 August last year.
Adviser Asif, one of the former student leaders who spearheaded the mass uprising, was seen in the video as saying, "The main veto from the army chief's side was that why Dr Yunus, why not any other person? There are cases against Dr Muhammad Yunus. He is a convicted person.
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"How can a convicted person be the chief adviser of a country?"
Asif also said the army chief asked, "Awami League cannot stand this person [Yunus], and 30-40% of the people of Bangladesh ultimately support Awami League. Is it wise to make a person chief adviser going against these 30-40% people?"
"The last thing that the army chief told us was, 'I am accepting this decision with a heavy heart'," Asif was seen saying in the video.
Earlier in the day, on his verified Facebook profile, Hasnat Abdullah, chief organiser (South) of the National Citizen Party (NCP), shared a 28-second trailer of the video Asif posted.
In the comment section of the video, Hasnat also wrote that the TV channel which recorded this interview on 15 March is showing reluctance to broadcast it. "That's why the version we have is being released," he added.
