By Rakshit Aggarwal, aggrakshit@gmail.com Student-led National Citizen Party (NCP) chief Nhid Islam was quoted by the BBC Bangla service at midnight on Thursday as saying that Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, the interim head of Bangladesh's government, is considering resigning because he finds it difficult to work due to the political parties' failure to reach an agreement. According to the NCP convenor, Chief Adviser Yunus stated, "I won't be able to work unless the political parties can reach common ground," expressing his concern that he would not be able to function in the current state of the nation. According to Islam, he expressed to the chief adviser his expectation that the political parties will come together and cooperate, saying, "I hope everyone will cooperate with him." Bangladesh's seemingly unified military forces, which were instrumental in last year's student-led insurrection, presented Yunus's administration with a significant test over the past two days. Conflicts between the military and Bangladesh's interim government seem to have reached a breaking point, as the army is pressuring Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus to call elections by the end of the year in order to install an elected government by the beginning of 2026. Also, Waker-Uz-Zaman's comments from an internal army conference held at the Dhaka cantonment on Thursday were leaked to the Bangladeshi media. Bangladesh needs a stable political environment. "Only an elected government, not unelected decision-makers, can accomplish this," he was reported as saying during the meeting by The Daily Star newspaper. "The army is not there to enforce the law; it is there to defend the country. After elections, we have to go back to the barracks," he said, according to the daily. According to sources, the army general also questioned how the economy was being managed and voiced concern about the high-risk decisions of unelected governments—such as permitting the deployment of Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet services. "The Bangladesh Army's officer corps has endorsed the chief," the sources claimed, adding that the army will not tolerate any form of rebellion or mob violence.
