Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has claimed that the recent protests in Bangladesh were likely instigated by a foreign intelligence agency, specifically suspecting the involvement of the ISI.
He said that the unrest was driven by external forces rather than domestic issues and criticized how his mother’s statement was distorted to fuel the protests.
‘I now firmly believe this was instigated by a small group and most likely by a foreign intelligence agency. I strongly suspect the ISI. There was no reason for the protests to continue because the quotas were not mandated by our government and were restored by a court ruling. Our government had lifted the quotas in 2018 or so when the first quota protests happened’, he said.
He alleged that the protesters twisted Sheikh Hasina’s statement on Razakars, which led to the escalation of the protests. ‘When the protests started, they were peaceful. Our police provided security for the protesters. Then they took my mother’s statement where she said that we don’t want Razakars’ families getting jobs. They took that statement and twisted it, saying that my mother said the protesters were Razakars. My mother never said that. But this was spread online. And then, in the middle of the night, some group–nobody knows who did that–marched through Dhaka University chanting, ‘We are Razakars’.
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