Dhaka, Dec. 1 -- Writer and political thinker Farhad Mazhar has accused Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus of forming a "pact" with the military and international powers by "ignoring" the people who along with students installed him in power through the July Uprising.

Speaking on bdnews24.com's discussion programme Inside Out, he said Yunus was "abandoning" citizens by moving towards elections without resolving the political ruptures exposed after the regime change.

Mazhar also said the rise in mob violence, shrine vandalism and attacks on Bauls since the uprising was "inevitable", arguing that the government's failure to embark on a process of "rebuilding the state" had fuelled these tensions.

Mazhar described what he called "religious fasc...