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12.03.2014 South Asia

Secret conspiracy of coup in Bangladesh

12.03.2014 LISTEN
By David Hoffman

Snake in the sleeve is a famous proverb. Bangladesh Prime Minister Ms. Hasina is currently having one, which is actively plotting a coup in the country any time after the forthcoming Lok Shabha election in India that takes place from April 7 this year. The man who is silently giving final touches to his deadly plan is none but the Security Advisor to the PM - Tareq Ahmed Siddiqi who is known to be the most powerful man in the country. He also is a relative of the Bangladeshi Prime Minister. With the high ambition of grabbing power by ousting the PM General Tareq had been working for years and has finally been able placing his loyalists in all of the top positions in army and security agencies. The Head of Prime Minister's security General Aman is awaiting signal from his boss Tareq to shift PM's security into captivity. And the PM is in total dark!

The ambition of capturing power came into the mind of General Tareq when his own sister in law and the younger sister of the PM, Rehana Siddiqi aspired entering politics and she was visibly humiliated by Sheikh Hasina for such desire. This refusal turned Tareq furious on the PM and he promised to himself of taking revenge of such 'audacity'. Since then he had been working on the coup plan. Earlier he made an attempt of minusing Hasina from politics and placing his sister in law in the top leadership of Bangladesh Awami League, when army snatched power in January 2007. At that time General Tareq had managed General Moeen in putting Hasina out of politics and even sends her abroad on exile. But finally the game plan of Tareq did not work as Sheikh Hasina was unwilling giving up politics. But the opportunity came again for Tareq when Hasina came to power and made him the most powerful man in the country.

From the day one since he became use advisor, General Tareq systematically placed all of his loyalists in the key positions and finally fixed General Aman to head the special security force of the PM. Tareq also played role in putting mud on the images of Hasina's daughter Putul and her son Joy. Rumors centering both Putul and Joy were circulated under mechanism of Gen Tareq labelling Putul and Joy to be corrupts. Tareq with the help of his men at army intelligence contacted some local journalists such as Irtiza Nasim Ali of Probe magazine and got stories against Joy published. Even scoops against Putul and her husband to be involved in Padma bridge bribery was sent by Gen Tareq to Bangla daily newspaper named Amar Desh. Even in Recent past he tried to label Joy as the main culprit behind the audio message of Al Qaida boss Ayman al Zawahiri. This rumor was purposefully conveyed to opposition party BNP.

Indian intelligence RAW on a number of occasions had alerted Sheikh Hasina of coup conspiracy although in most cases Gen Tareq kept those intel reports hidden from the PM clearly with ulterior motive. While maligning images of Hasina's children Gen Tareq had built a positive image of his own nephews, Tulip and Redwan Mujib Boby, children of Sheikh Rehana. Media exposures for Tulip were arranged in Bangladesh when she decided to run in UK election with nomination from British Labor Party. Tulip and Boby are projected as well educated while Joy is projected as an alcoholic, womanizer and corrupt. These are all part of Tareq's conspiracy against Hasina.

A bloody coup in gradually becoming well assumed in Bangladesh and finally Gen Tareq way assume power with an agenda of continuing autocracy for many years.

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