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Two salient pupil advisers of the interim authorities of Bangladesh – Mahfuj Alam and Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan – tendered their resignations connected Wednesday (December 10, 2025), up of the announcement of the predetermination docket successful the country.
Nahid Islam, different starring pupil advisor successful the Yunus-led government, had resigned successful February, to pb the National Citizen Party, which plans to contention the election.
Mr. Bhuiyan was the advisor successful complaint of the Ministry of Youth and Sports arsenic good arsenic the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives, portion Mahfuj Alam served arsenic advisor to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Earlier this year, successful a Facebook post, Mr. Bhuiyan had apologised for his begetter obtaining a contractor’s licence. He acknowledged that his father’s concern had created a “conflict of interest” for him arsenic a subordinate of the interim government. He besides drew attraction erstwhile helium called for providing arms grooming to the younker of Bangladesh for “regional” reasons.
Mr. Alam had earlier risen to prominence erstwhile helium accompanied Prof. Muhammad Yunus connected his archetypal travel to the U.S. aft taking bureau successful August 2024. At a Clinton Global Initiative lawsuit successful New York connected September 25, 2024, Mr. Yunus described Mr. Alam arsenic the “brain down the full revolution” and introduced him, on with 2 different pupil activists, to the assemblage arsenic erstwhile U.S. President Bill Clinton looked on.
More recently, Mr. Alam courted contention for criticising the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Jamaat-e-Islami (JEI) – 2 of the starring governmental parties expected to execute good successful the upcoming election, scheduled for February 2026.
At a gathering successful September 2025, Mr. Alam alleged that BNP and Jamaat had supported the uprising against Sheikh Hasina and had moved rapidly to spot their supporters successful cardinal positions pursuing Ms. Hasina’s ouster.
His remarks were viewed arsenic problematic, fixed that the interim authorities has been consulting large governmental parties to guarantee a creaseless modulation of powerfulness to a democratically elected medication and to beforehand the July Charter – a acceptable of proposals aimed astatine bringing imperishable reforms to Bangladesh’s governance structure.
