Muhammad Yunus, the head of Bangladesh’s interim government, on Wednesday (October 29) expressed apprehension that forces “from home and abroad” will try to thwart the upcoming general elections in Bangladesh over the ban imposed on deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League from contesting.

“Many forces from inside and outside the country will work to spoil the election. Many powerful forces, not minor ones, will attempt to thwart it. Sudden attacks may come,” Yunus’s press secretary Shafiqul Alam quoted him as saying at a high-level meeting on election preparedness.

‘Challenging elections’, says Yunus

Alam also said that Yunus, during the meeting, termed the elections as “challenging” as “various types of propaganda will be carried out in a planned manner from inside and outs

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