DHAKA: Allies of ousted Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina were working to undermine the interim government that replaced her regime, two of her leading rivals warned at a massive rally in the capital Dhaka on Friday (November 8).

Hasina, 77, He fled to neighboring India by helicopter in August A student-led uprising led protesters to take to the streets of the capital Dhaka, bringing a dramatic end to his iron-fisted tenure.

Since then, an interim government led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammed Younis has been tasked with implementing far-reaching democratic reforms and holding new elections.

Hundreds of thousands of people attended Friday’s demonstration, one of the largest since Hasina’s ouster and organized by long-time opponents of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).

“We have gathered here to protect the people’s right to vote and to prevent the reemergence of fascists,” Tarique Rahman, the BNP’s exiled deputy leader, told participants via video link from his home in London.

“We must be careful. Although the autocrats are gone, evil forces are still active. We cannot afford for the interim government to fail.”

The BNP came under repeated pressure under Hasina’s government, which human rights groups say was behind the extrajudicial killings of hundreds of political opponents. unlawful abduction and disappearance of hundreds more people.

“Sheikh Hasina escaped but the conspiracy continues,” BNP general secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said at the rally.

“His associates are conspiring to undermine the movement. We must be very careful.”