00:00Mr. Kumar the developments here happening in the neighborhood are disturbing least to say
00:07troubled neighbor and
00:09Prime Minister on the run
00:11How does this?
00:13Augur for New Delhi first of all and secondly, what are the possibilities of Sheikh Hasina?
00:19Not stopping in India and flying all the way to London. I
00:23I
00:26Think both are possible. See the thing is that India has been in this kind of position before also when
00:32Bangladesh has been
00:35in a politically unsettled position
00:39and you know, it's a when you have a regime being replaced are being
00:45You know
00:46If I won't use the word cool
00:48but when we they're being forced to resign a prime minister has been forced to resign and
00:54Leave the country. See there is no plan B the protesters when they started the protest
01:01It was there. They did not start with this assumption that they are going to
01:06force the regime to exit it was the
01:10circumstances emerged in such a way that
01:14Sheikh Hasina did not have any option but to leave the country and resign
01:20So there was no plan B and you know, whenever you have a protest mean in such a large scale
01:27the students were concerned about their future when they started the protest against reservation and
01:33later on this
01:35spontaneous protest
01:37Was taken over and by supported by other political groups
01:42The opponents of Sheikh Hasina
01:44Now what has happened is that?
01:47There is a there is no plan B
01:49So naturally the army intervenes that has happened in past also when the army intervenes
01:55that means that the situation in the country is not good and
02:00And the army will have to you know
02:03first they will have the first concern of the army is to assuage the sentiments of the protesters and
02:10To fight for that they will have to find a face in Dhaka
02:15who can be the head of the caretaker government and the face and that face has to be
02:24Somebody who is clean who has a popular support who enjoys
02:30Bipartisan support also that is very important. What I'm hearing is that
02:35the economist and the Nobel laureate
02:39Dr. Yunus is probably one of the faces being discussed as the caretaker chief
02:46but dr. Yunus also has a reputation of being anti awami league and anti Sheikh Hasina and and
02:54Also, he he has been anti dynastic. He has been advocating an anti dynastic politics
03:01But in the present scenario what have what are what are the options for?
03:06Say a new caretaker head the option for him is to
03:10Take the support of Jamaat-e-Islami
03:13Jatiya party and the BMP
03:17Bangladesh Nationalist Party, they they are the opponents of awami league. So even even
03:24Dr. Yunus despite having a good intention will not be in a position to dictate terms and rule the way
03:32he wants and
03:33Take the country in a different direction where not only BNP and awami are in a position to rule the country
03:40But also there is a third alternative
03:43He wants to be a third alternative, but the situation
03:47Circumstances in Bangladesh is not such right now which allows
03:53For a third for a third alternative. What I believe is that the protesters most of the students protesters
03:59they are communist also they are
04:02Liberal students secular students, of course backed by
04:06Jamaat-e-Islami and BNP they would like a government which is
04:11We which presents which presents a third third alternative in Bangladesh
04:17Which is which is not BNP, which is not awami league, which I think right now is not going to happen
04:23So what is going to happen now, though? So the caretaker government will take the charge and
04:29They and try to restore
04:32credibility's normalcy in in Bangladesh and
04:36For four months they will rule
04:40But what suppose a new election happens then what's going to happen the new election when the new election happens?
04:47Will they allow awami league to participate in the election?
04:51that will also be the question if if the whole debate is about democracy and it's all it's also about
04:58That the Sheikh Hasina has been crushing democracy and they were she was not giving
05:03A space to the liberal voices and those democratic voices
05:08So will the new regime the new kind of set a political setup that comes in Dhaka?
05:14will they allow a level playing field to all the political parties despite the
05:20grudges and grievances the opponents have against
05:25Awami league ruling awami league, which has been in power for the last 15 years
05:29So I see this kind of a scenario for India the second question that you asked for India is a double-edged sword
05:36if if India gives shelter to
05:41awami league to Sheikh Hasina a
05:44Very unpopular leader right now
05:47India will be also, you know
05:51Taking the anger of the people on the streets in Bangladesh and
05:58India claiming to be a friend of Bangladesh. I don't think India will
06:05like to have
06:07Any position where it is backing a very unpopular leader who has escaped the nation
06:14So this is the situation I feel
06:17Yeah, so this is what I feel
