It's actually clear brother and I can't provide evidences though . Just look at the 15 February 1996 election. It was one party election too and Khaleda Zia survived few days.
On the other hand in 5 January 2014 election sheikh Hasina not only survived but she is also dominating ruthlessly. She is also doing good job no doubt. But Hussein Muhammad Ershad also did great job I bis 9 years reign. So actually what was the reason of his downfall? Thick headed people believe that it's brave Bengali who started movement against autocratic Ershad and established democracy!
So what is the real reason that sheikh Hasina survived and Ershad didn't?Simply Ershad lost the support of deep state of Bangladesh.
Now many people will start questioning that why Ershad was taken down, he was former army chief. Well Parvez musharraf is another example like Hussein Muhammad Ershad, both were army chiefs of the two countries.
Tell me who was the main cause of the downfall of Hosni Mubarak? Is it the brave Egyptian or Egyptian deep state? And later who is responsible for the fall of moorsi? If the brave Egyptian people then why sisi abdel fatah is still ruling
? Simply deep state is supporting him.
Just a part of Egyptian army showed their support for the protesters against sisi just to make the deep state halal in western's eye.
In Bangladesh armed forces just do not interfere in politics directly and will never do. We are globally a neutral country in this region unlike Pakistan and Egypt who has direct enemy like Israel and India. So it's actually easy to control from behind without much show off.
However deep state is secretly active in West too, but they are advanced nation so they can hide it in another way but that's different argument!
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