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Bangladesh’s newly-elected Prime Minister Tarique Rahman connected Wednesday (February 18, 2026) vowed to fortify the regularisation of instrumentality and said his authorities volition crook the state into a harmless onshore for radical of each faiths, careless of party, opinion, religion, oregon ethnicity.
In his maiden televised code to the federation aft assuming office, 60-year-old Rahman outlined his government's priorities and said that improving the instrumentality and bid concern and strictly controlling corruption to reconstruct bid and information are his apical priorities.
"We privation to crook this state into a harmless onshore for each citizen. Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Christians — careless of party, opinion, religion, oregon ethnicity — whether surviving successful the hills oregon the plains, this state belongs to each of us," said the premier minister, who is besides the main of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).
“Whether you voted for BNP, oregon did not ballot for BNP, oregon did not ballot astatine each -- everyone has adjacent rights implicit this government... As a Bangladeshi, each 1 of america has adjacent rights successful this country, successful this state,” helium asserted.
His remarks astir a pluralistic nine presume value arsenic the Hindu colonisation successful Bangladesh has been affected by a bid of attacks aft the ouster of then-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina successful August 2024.
Under the interim authorities of Muhammad Yunus since August 2024, the state has experienced a emergence successful mob violence, extrajudicial killings and attacks connected number communities, particularly Hindus.
Rights radical Manabadhikar Shongskriti Foundation (MSF) said that successful January 2026 alone, they documented 21 incidents of lynching and 28 incidents of mob beatings.
The Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council reported 522 communal attacks successful 2025, including killings, rapes, and temple vandalism, with murders of 116 radical of number faiths, mostly Hindus, betwixt June 2025 and January 2026.
The reports suggested leaders and activists of the Awami League, disbanded by the Yunus regime, were the victims of astir attacks.
India has been expressing concerns implicit attacks connected minorities, particularly Hindus, successful Bangladesh.
Earlier, the senior-most curate successful the caller government, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, said that the instrumentality and bid contented was 1 of 3 priorities and the medication would instrumentality steps to extremity "mob violence".
Alamgir, who is besides the party’s caput wide and entrusted with the complaint of the section authorities ministry, said, “This (mob violence) volition beryllium controlled.”
“We indispensable strive to amended the instrumentality and bid situation, careless of however overmuch it has deteriorated,” helium added.
Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed besides said, “The mob civilization successful nary mode tin beryllium tolerated.”
In his address, Mr. Rahman said each constitutional, governmental, and non-governmental instauration volition run according to established laws and regulations.
“Not enactment oregon governmental power oregon force, but the regularisation of instrumentality volition beryllium the last connection successful governing the state,” helium said.
He said establishing a self-reliant, secure, humane, and antiauthoritarian Bangladesh is the extremity of his party’s government.
In his address, Mr. Rahman did not elaborate connected his overseas policy. He, however, astatine the opening of his speech, said that “in a Bangladesh freed from subservience, a caller authorities accountable to the radical done their votes has begun its journey”.
He said his authorities started its travel amid a fragile system battered by corruption and misrule during the “period of fascism, a anemic governance structure, and a deteriorating instrumentality and bid situation”.
Mr. Rahman besides extended his greetings to the radical connected the juncture of the beatified period of Ramadan. “If we genuinely recognize the essence of self-purification, past this period should not summation people’s suffering,” helium said.
On the proviso of gas, water, and energy during Ramadan, Mr. Rahman said helium has already instructed the authorities acrophobic to guarantee the civic amenities during iftar, tarawih, and sehri times.
Referring to his erstwhile pledge that if the BNP was voted to power, the authorities would travel the perfect of justness of the Holy Prophet, helium said, “I judge that this determination of the BNP parliamentary enactment reflects that precise perfect of justice”.
Mr. Rahman said his authorities was determined to dismantle each syndicates of wrongdoing and irregularities successful each assemblage but “protect the interests of some businessmen and consumers”.
Stating that Bangladesh was facing galore challenges, Mr. Rahman said, “If we tin alteration our ample colonisation into a skilled workforce, past this colonisation volition go our quality resource. If we tin make ourselves with skills, not lone Bangladesh but besides the planetary marketplace volition beryllium unfastened to us.”
He said the satellite is entering the epoch of artificial intelligence, and endurance with dignity and prosperity successful this competitory satellite requires expertise successful circumstantial fields.
He besides assured students and youths that his authorities was acceptable to supply each imaginable enactment to assistance them make intellectually and scientifically.
Mr. Rahman, 60, was sworn successful arsenic the 11th Prime Minister connected Tuesday (February 17, 2026) aft starring his enactment to a forceful triumph successful the 13th Parliamentary polls held connected February 12. He replaced interim authorities main Yunus.
Mr. Rahman, the lad of the precocious President Ziaur Rahman and erstwhile premier Khaleda Zia, returned location successful December aft surviving successful London successful self-exile for 17 years.
Along with Mr. Rahman, 25 Ministers and 24 State Ministers besides took the oath of bureau connected Tuesday (February 17, 2026).
