Following explosive claims about the Yunus regime, the Jamaat chief attacks the president of Bangladesh.

Days after Mohammed Shahabuddin discussed the torture he endured under Muhammad Yunus’s prior government following Sheikh Hasina’s removal in 2024, Shafiqur Rahman, the leader of Bangladesh’s hardline Jamaat-e-Islami party, launched a vicious attack on the nation’s president. The head of Jamaat, who also serves as the head of the opposition in the Bangladeshi Parliament, charged that the President had concealed important details on what happened on August 5, 2024, the day Hasina resigned and was compelled to leave the country with a majority of Muslims.

Rahman mentioned Shahabuddin’s recent interview with Bangladesh’s Bangali newspaper Kaler Kantho, in which he discussed his experiences after the political shift brought on by the July revolt, in a post on his verified Facebook page. Rahman wrote, “The president has withheld many facts regarding August 5, 2024.”

“What he told the leaders present that day regarding the alleged resignation of the [ousted] prime minister, and what he later conveyed to the nation, is not reflected in his current remarks. What he is saying now is not what he said that day,” he wrote, referring to the controversy over Sheikh Hasina’s missing resignation letter.

“Will the president reconcile what millions of people heard that day with what he said then and what he is saying now?” Rahman asked.

He added that the public remained fully aware of the developments surrounding the political transition. “The nation is not naive. Such conduct from the highest office of the state is unacceptable,” Rahman added.

Days before to Rahman’s criticism of the President, Shahabuddin had charged Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus, the former chief adviser, with “conspiring” to remove him from office in violation of the Constitution. Shahabuddin asserted that attempts were made to destabilize Bangladesh and create a constitutional void when Yunus was in office. The Jamaat chairman unintentionally revealed the connection between Yunus’s interim government and Islamist organizations in Bangladesh by criticizing the President.

Throughout his 18-month term, Yunus was often accused of encouraging, aiding, or enabling extremist Islamist groups after the August 2024 insurrection by Hasina’s Awami League party, the deposed leader, and other observers.

Shahabuddin stated in a televised speech that she had “tendered her resignation letter to the president, and I have received it,” few hours after Hasina’s escape from Bangladesh on August 5, 2025.” According to the constitution, Hasina’s resignation was necessary to validate the establishment of Yunus’s transitional government.

However, two months later, the President claimed that he had only “heard” about Hasina’s resignation but had no evidence of whether she resigned. “I tried [to collect the resignation letter] many times but failed. Maybe she did not have the time,” he told Bangladeshi daily Janatar Chokh in October 2024.

The change in his stance led to a call for his removal, which he managed to ultimately ride out. Bangladesh’s president has alleged that the Yunus regime tried to remove him from the top office repeatedly.