"Jihadis Are In Power": Taslima Nasrin Slams Yunus Regime Ahead Of Bangladesh Elections
On the eve of Bangladesh's elections, exiled writer Taslima Nasrin has delivered her most blistering critique in years of the country's political direction, accusing the Muhammad Yunus-led interim dispensation of empowering Islamic fundamentalists, presiding over widespread violence, and allowing democracy to collapse into what she calls a dangerous "use of elections to establish theocracy". "I don't know that Bangladesh anymore," Nasrin told NDTV's Senior Executive Editor Aditya Raj Kaul in a wide-ranging exclusive interview. "Jihadis are in power. I should say Islamic fundamentalists were brought to power. And almost every day there is more violence-attacks on minorities, attacks on opposition party members, attacks on liberal voices."
