A social media post of Sushanta Das Gupta, an organizer of ATeam, propaganda wing of Awami League (BAL), has revealed the party’s attempts to stage arson attacks to fuel unrest.
The organizer said he received a call from a party worker claiming a Grameen Bank branch had been set on fire. But when he checked, he found that no such branch exists within 60 square kilometers of the location mentioned. “Was the fire set in a dream?” he wrote in frustration.
The post exposes how BAL’s propaganda wing, ATeam, manufactures incidents of arson and vandalism—sometimes even faking them—to create disorder and undermine the Yunus-led interim government. Reports also suggest that BAL leaders are paying activists to carry out arson in different parts of the country.