BNP leader and former parliament member Rumeen Farhana has said that the incidents of the last few days imply that Chief Adviser Yunus is staging a drama of his resignation to draw sympathy amid criticisms for his failures.

Yunus didn’t allow the BNP, which sought his appointment four times, nor did he allow Jamaat-e-Islami, but he sat with the leaders of his party, the National Citizen Party (NCP).

NCP convener Nahid Islam, chief coordinator Nasiruddin Patwary, LGRD Adviser Asif Mahmud and Information Adviser Mahfuj Alam were present at the meeting.

Coming out of the meeting, Nahid told the media that Yunus wanted to resign.

Speaking at a talk show on Channel 24 TV on Friday night, she asked why Yunus wanted to send the message to the media through Nahid.

I assume that it might have happened because he’s emotional and childish. He might have said this out of pain because he “successfully failed” in every aspect. It needs a different level of qualification to fail this way. Yunus and his entire team have failed in the nine months.

In that case, it isn’t rational to have someone in the position who doesn’t have stability.

The other possibility is that he wants to save his skin. He has antagonized every political party and the army and created chaos in every sector. His immature thugs, like Hasnat Abdullah, Sarjis Alam and Asif Mahmud, have made derogatory comments about the army chief, General Waker-uz-Zaman.

We can’t even imagine that rubbish things can be said about the army chief and the military. The army chief has shown patience.

Had the movement not been successful, Hasnat and Sarjis would have saved their lives like they had been safe under the umbrella of the Awami League and Chhatra League.

But the army chief would have been tried in a court-martial and hanged. He made a firm decision to defy the prime minister’s order. He’s a respectable and popular personality.

Yunus’ resignation could also be a drama to assess his popularity. He thought different parties, including the BNP, would request him not to resign for the sake of the country’s well-being.

Also, Yunus chose Thursday for this stunt because his allies in the Islamist parties usually gather in front of the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque on Friday. It’s easier to have a large number of people.

But this drama is a flop. Not a single party urged him to stay.

I should mention another point: when a chair is empty, it’ll eventually be filled by another person. It doesn’t remain empty.