Yunus' Special Assistant Resigns As Unrest Grips Bangladesh Ahead Of Feb 12 Polls

Khoda Baksh Chowdhury, Special Assistant (Home Ministry) to Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus, has resigned from his position as the unrest continues days after the death of the uprising leader Osman Hadi.

President Mohammed Shahabuddin has also accepted the resignation of Chowdhury, who was appointed as a special assistant to Yunus on November 10, 2024. Chowdhury is a former Inspector General of Police (IGP).

Earlier on Wednesday, a man was killed in a crude bomb attack near a church in Dhaka.

Following Hadi’s death, Bangladesh witnessed a fresh wave of unrest, with a mob setting alight the offices of the mass circulation Daily Star and Prothom Alo and two leading cultural groups, Chhayanot and the Udichi Shilpi Goshti, which were founded in the 1960s.

The violence was reported as less than two months remain before the national election scheduled for February 12, 2026. This will be the first election in Bangladesh since the collapse of the Sheikh Hasina regime in July 2024.

So far, at least three advisers have resigned from Muhammad Yunus’s interim government, apart from the latest resignation of Khoda Baksh Chowdhury. These include Nahid Islam, a student leader adviser who stepped down from the advisory council earlier in 2025. On 10 December 2025, Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain resigned from his post as adviser to the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives. On the same day, Mahfuj Alam also resigned from his role as adviser to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.