Dhaka's move to bring back BNP's Tarique Rahman from UK explains hijacking of stir
student protests in Bangladesh by Opposition BNP and its radical ally Jamaat-e-Islami may have had its genesis in the backdrop of panic that has set in BNP over the Hasina government's move to extradite BNP leader Tarique Rahman from UK where he is in self-exile since 2008.
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ET has learnt that Dhaka had held initial discussions with the UK government in the recent past to extradite Rahman. The Awami League government wants to put him on trial on charges of corruption and abetment to terrorism uring BNP rule (2001-06).
The attempt to oust Sheikh Hasina from power may have had its origin out of apprehension that Rahman might face tough sentence if he gets extradited, Bangladesh watchers claimed.
Rahman who de facto ran the government for five years (2001-06) still pulls strings guiding the party in Bangladesh with his mother and former PM Khaleda Zia indisposed.
Between 2001-06 Rahman allegedly plotted moves to target the Opposition and encouraged insurgents and terror groups operating from the territory of Bangladesh.
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