Bangladesh chaos funded by Clintons, Soros, backed by Biden, says ex-minister

The August 2024 regime change in Bangladesh, which forced out Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was long rumoured to have the US deep state's hand behind it. Now, former Bangladesh minister Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury has confirmed it. Chowdhury, who played a key role during the July-August crisis in Bangladesh, speaking to media outlet Russia Today, claimed that a nexus involving George Soros-linked groups, the USAID, the Clintons, and the Biden administration funnelled funds that ultimately fuelled the radicals and helped orchestrate the 2024 regime change in Dhaka.

In the interview with Russia Today (RT), Chowdhury, who served as a Cabinet minister and chief negotiator during the 2024 crisis, said that the riots which forced Hasina out of power were not spontaneous.

"Certain families who were in power, especially the Biden family, the Clintons, the Soros', and some NGOs, especially from the United States—USAID, and the Republican Institute, were running campaigns against our government for a while, since 2018," Chowdhury told RT.

"There is a nexus between the Clinton family and the interim Yunus regime from a very long past... These activities went on for a long time. They weren't very open, but funding for clandestine NGOs was going on. They were hell-bent on changing the government in Bangladesh," he added.

The former minister alleged that the 2024 student protests, which began over job quota reforms, were "carefully planned with this money".

"A chaos was carefully planned with this money. And then the chaos turned into a big riot," he said.

The infiltration of Islamist elements into the student protests is something even Jatiya Party chairman GM Quader recently pointed out in his opinion piece for India Today Digital.

Even, India Today Digital, quoting stakeholders in Bangladesh, had reported in August 2025 that the downfall of Sheikh Hasina wasn't just driven by student protests. It involved urban guerrilla-style attacks, the military's hands-off stance, and a coordinated collapse of state machinery.

CLINTON NEXUS AND WESTERN FUNDING TRAIL IN BANGLADESH, CLAIMS EX-MINISTER

Chowdhury further claimed that there was a long-standing nexus between "the Clinton family and the interim Yunus regime".

He alleged that "funding of clandestine NGOs was going on" to destabilise the Hasina government and that "they were hell-bent on changing the government in Bangladesh".

He also raised questions over USAID's financial activities in Bangladesh, claiming millions of dollars were unaccounted for. "IRI was active, USAID's funding was going nowhere. Where had that money gone to? It was destined for regime change activities," Chowdhury said, directly implicating the US backing the 2024 unrest.

In August 2024, weeks-long student protests over government job quotas spiralled into violent clashes across Bangladesh, leaving hundreds of deaths. After the students were infiltrated by Islamists and radicals, mobs tried to storm into Hasina's official residence.

Sheikh Hasina, who had ruled Bangladesh for 15 years, fled the country.

MUHAMMAD YUNUS PART OF WESTERN NEXUS: BANGLADESH EX-MINISTER

Muhammad Yunus, who Mohibul Chowdhury claimed was part of the "nexus", was then in Europe. He was soon flown in to be appointed the chief adviser of the interim government.

Chowdhury, in the RT interview, dismissed the narrative that it was a spontaneous student movement. Instead, he described it as a "Western-sponsored operation" to topple Hasina's long-standing regime and install a more pliant set-up in Dhaka.

Since Yunus took charge, Dhaka's domestic and foreign priorities have visibly shifted. Its policies are influenced by Islamist groups at home and a renewed outreach has been made towards Pakistan abroad. The interim administration has distanced itself from New Delhi, sought to soften its stance on Pakistan's pre-Partition atrocities on the Bengalis, and turned a blind eye to the growing persecution of minorities, including Hindus, in present-day Bangladesh.

Since August 2024, whispers of Western involvement in Sheikh Hasina regime's fall were dismissed as conspiracy talk. But Chowdhury's revelations now lend weight to what many suspected all along. His claims not only expose the alleged foreign hand behind the chaos but also cast new light on Muhammad Yunus's motives and the direction in which the interim administration is steering Bangladesh.

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