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Bangladesh Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus-led interim authorities connected Saturday (December 13, 2025) ordered a nationwide information clampdown arsenic caller unrest gripped the state pursuing the shooting of a right-wing taste group's younker leader.
Inquilab Mancha person Sharif Osmann Hadi, besides a campaigner successful the scheduled February 12 wide elections, was changeable connected Friday (December 12, 2025) arsenic helium initiated his predetermination run astatine cardinal Dhaka’s Bijoynagar area.
According to doctors, his information is precise critical.
"The authorities is going to commencement the 2nd signifier of Operation Devil Hunt to assistance guarantee nationalist information and combat the increasing menace of amerciable arms," Home Affairs Adviser Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury told a property conference.
The interim authorities archetypal launched the Operation Devil hunt successful February this year, pursuing protests implicit an onslaught connected a erstwhile Minister's backstage location successful the bluish suburb of the capital. The cognition targeted alleged “henchmen” and supporters of deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s present disbanded Awami League.
Home Adviser Chowdhury announced a reward of 50 lakh taka ($40,985.81) for accusation starring to the apprehension of 1 of the suspects who changeable Mr. Hadi. Meanwhile, constabulary issued the suspect's pictures, identifying him as Faisal Karim Masud.
He was 1 of the 3 motorcycle-borne assailants who changeable Mr. Hadi successful the caput from adjacent scope successful Bijoynagar, wherever the younker person is contesting arsenic an autarkic candidate.
Newspaper reports quoting Mr. Hadi’s associates said the assailants were acquainted with him and had accompanied him since Friday (December 12, 2025) morning, a time aft the Election Commission announced the canvass schedule.
Mr. Hadi was initially rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) pursuing the shooting, from wherever helium was shifted overnight to the specialised Evercare Hospital.
“His [Mr. Hadi’s] information is critical. He has been provided a beingness enactment system,” DMCH Director Brigadier General Mohammad Asaduzzaman told reporters earlier.
Doctors astatine Evercare said connected Saturday (December 13, 2025) that Mr. Hadi's information “remains static” but “not retired of danger”, portion the aesculapian committee formed for him preferred not to execute immoderate country immediately, relying connected medicine and supportive attraction for now.
Chief Adviser Yunus ordered a manhunt for the suspects, and connected Saturday (December 13, 2025) met Mr. Hadi’s household members, assuring them of each enactment for his treatment. "The full state is praying for him, and everyone is trying to guarantee that helium receives the champion aesculapian care,” Mr. Yunus said.
Mr. Hadi was a frontline person of past year’s student-led convulsive thoroughfare protestation dubbed the July Uprising, which toppled the Hasina-led Awami League Government connected August 5.
Home Adviser Chowdhury said the authorities had taken steps to guarantee peculiar information for the “frontline fighters” of the July Uprising, adding MP candidates would besides beryllium issued firearm licenses if they wanted. He said that candidates who earlier handed implicit their licensed weapons to the authorities, would beryllium returned their arms.
Meanwhile, critically sick erstwhile Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party, arsenic good arsenic the Jamaat-e-Islami, and student-led National Citizen Party (NCP) powerfully criticised the onslaught connected Hadi.
NCP main organiser Hasnat Abdullah, Mr. Hadi’s adjacent comrade during and aft the uprising, said, “There would beryllium nary spot for fascists [Awami League] successful Bangladesh, careless of the sanction oregon level nether which they operate.”
“We instrumentality an oath successful Osman Hadi's humor – they volition not beryllium fixed adjacent an inch of abstraction successful this country," helium told a protestation rally.
The Inquilab Mancha spearheads a run to apprehension “all terrorists” of the disbanded Awami League from the cardinal to grassroots levels and guarantee information of the “July warriors”.
It was astatine the forefront of a run to disband the Awami League, which the Yunus-led interim authorities did successful May this year, disqualifying it from contesting the polls.
