Overview

• Sheikh Hasina alleged that Yunus seized power with extremist support, banned her Awami League party without legal mandate and compromised national sovereignty.
• Army Chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman publicly called for general elections by December 2025 and warned against major policy moves by an unelected administration.
• Yunus held unscheduled Advisory Council talks and met delegations from the BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami and National Citizen Party to negotiate election timing and reforms.
• Public sector workers and primary school teachers staged multi-day strikes against a new dismissal ordinance and stalled revenue board reforms, prompting the interim government to withdraw those measures.
• Economic uncertainty grew after policy paralysis froze revenue collection and foreign direct investment fell to a six-year low with rising political unrest.