 "Bangladesh's Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina (L) and interim leader Muhammad Yunus (R). (Image: AFP)")
A close aide of Sheikh Hasina has levelled explosive allegations against the Clinton family and a US government agency, claiming they were behind the 2024 uprising that led to the Bangladesh prime minister’s ouster.
In an interview with Russia Today, Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury, a former minister in Hasina’s cabinet, alleged a nexus between the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the interim government led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus.
According to Chowdhury, USAID and certain Western-backed NGOs had been “running campaigns” against the Hasina government since 2018. “Certain actions of some NGOs, especially from the US—I mean USAID, to name one, or the International Republican Institute—were directed against our government for a while,” he said.
Chowdhury further claimed that the 2024 uprising was a “carefully planned” operation backed by Western interests, linking it to a long-standing association between Yunus and the Clinton family.
He pointed to Bill Clinton’s past praise for Yunus, recalling how the former US president had once said the Grameen Bank founder “should have long ago won the Nobel Prize.” Yunus was also invited to speak at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in 2024, where he was warmly received by Clinton.
“This relationship reflects a deeper attempt by the Clinton Foundation and Yunus to push for regime change in Bangladesh under the guise of promoting democracy and development,” Chowdhury alleged.
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More Shorts“There is a nexus between the Clinton family and the interim Yunus regime from a very long past,” he told RT, adding that “clandestine NGO funding” had been ongoing for years to destabilize Hasina’s government.
The USAID—Washington’s largest humanitarian and development agency—was dissolved in July 2024 by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under Elon Musk’s leadership, with its foreign aid functions later shifted to the US State Department.
Sheikh Hasina herself has accused Yunus of “selling the nation to the US,” claiming that both she and her late father had rejected American efforts to gain control over St Martin’s Island, a small but strategic territory in the Bay of Bengal.