As former interim government adviser Mahfuj Alam’s Facebook post about the “return” of the ousted Awami League continues to stir widespread discussion, another former adviser, Prof Asif Nazrul, has weighed in on the issue.

"The Awami League hasn't come back; they were always here. What has returned is their arrogance, falsehood and the audacity to mislead people," Asif Nazrul wrote in a Facebook post this afternoon.

His remarks came a day after Mahfuj Alam said in a Facebook post that the Awami League had returned as a “theology” because of various deviations and transgressions over the past year and a half.

Following Awami League's ouster in the 2024 mass uprising, an interim government headed by Prof Muhammad Yunus was formed, which included Dhaka University law professor Asif Nazrul and Mahfuj Alam as advisers. The interim administration banned Awami League's activities, a decision upheld by the BNP government that assumed power in February this year.

Last night, Mahfuj made a lengthy social media post saying, "The (Awami) League is a theology before it is a political party, and faith in that theology has returned. Today, I will tell the story of how it returned."

Mahfuj, a key figure in the 2024 uprising, listed several reasons for the party's ideological resurgence.

"The League came back the very day anti-liberation (war) forces pitted '24 against '71," he wrote.

He said that the AL returned the day mob rule replaced the rule of law, shrines were attacked and people remained silent during the oppression of minorities. He also blamed the "state-sponsored rise of the right-wing" during the interim government's tenure, attacks on media and cultural institutions, and compromises in the electoral and judicial processes.

Criticising the interim administration, he wrote, "The government turned from political to bureaucratic, and decisions began to be made by a bureaucrat-dependent kitchen cabinet. Most people in that kitchen cabinet were covert agents of Jamaat, BNP, or the (Awami) League."

Mahfuj further wrote, "Instead of turning into a revolutionary organisation, the students morphed into a lumpen-charactered club and mob."

"The grand attempt to counter Bangalee nationalism with a regressive cultural system like the Qawwali/Inquilabi culture had also begun," he added