Politics & Power Quote by Sheikh Hasina

The line lands less like a moral sermon than a political blade: if the state cannot solve spectacular violence, it forfeits the right to govern. By tying “unresolved” terror attacks to “Islamic militancy,” Sheikh Hasina isn’t only naming a security problem; she’s assigning culpability through incompetence. The phrasing implies a government either too compromised, too fearful, or too cynical to bring perpetrators to justice. “No moral authority” is a deliberate escalation from policy failure to legitimacy crisis: not “they should resign,” but “they are illegitimate.”

In Bangladesh’s bruising political ecosystem, where elections and street power often compete with institutions, this is classic opposition rhetoric with a high-stakes twist. Unsolved attacks become more than crimes; they become evidence of a broken social contract. The subtext is an invitation to see the regime as morally bankrupt, not merely ineffective. It also works as reputational inoculation for the speaker: by foregrounding militancy, she claims the mantle of secular order and positions herself as the credible custodian of public safety.

The choice to specify “Islamic militancy” does cultural work, too. It reassures some audiences that the threat is being named plainly, while risking the familiar collateral damage: painting piety and extremism with the same brush, inviting securitized politics, and narrowing the space for nuance. It’s a sentence engineered for consequence: make governance synonymous with justice delivered, then argue the absence of verdicts is itself a verdict on power.