After the coups and counter-coups that followed, a military government led by Gen. Ziaur Rahman was finally installed. Less partisans say that he refused to either participate or get involved in any way with the coup. In fact, one group of the plotters had gaoled him briefly before he manoeuvered himself to power in November 1976 after a series of abortive and non-abortive take overs. Even the Maoists gave up insurgency, and promptly vanis-hed from the political scene. But some still bat for the BNP now.
Partisan loyalties do live on.
One such person is Jehangir Mohammed Adel, once a leader of Muslim League, who is now being tried for sedition for hoisting a Pakistani flag atop his Dhaka residence on 14 August, the Pakistan Day. But this is an extreme case, as in general, anti-Pakistan feelings are never high. Musharraf may have changed that a bit now. The other hate figure in Hasina s life is of course Khaleda Zia, present leader of BNP and ex-prime minister of Bangladesh, now doing her best to oust Hasina from power using the hartal strategy. Khaleda is Gen. Zia s widow, and was a political novice till she took over the party in 1981.