General Waker: The Uniformed Politician Who Overplayed His Hand

Reading Time: 4 minutes In the theatre of Bangladeshi power politics, few actors have entered stage left with such flamboyance—and exited, or rather staggered—so quickly into the spotlight of public scorn as General Waker. His recent foray into political engineering, thinly veiled behind the façade of statecraft, has not merely backfired. It has become a textbook case of hubris, overreach, and political tin-earedness. Once a name scarcely known outside defence circles, Waker has now managed to etch himself into the national consciousness—but for all the wrong reasons. His audacious calls for early elections under the guise of ‘stability’, his overt sabotage campaign against Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus, his unmistakable lean toward pro-Indian realignment, and his attempts to rehabilitate the discredited Awami League under military patronage, have made one thing abundantly clear: the General mistook the patience of the people for their approval. He has now become, in the court