Bangladesh, Sept. 26 -- In Bangladeshi politics, parties rarely rise to prominence by accident. When a political formation like the Jatiyo Party (JaPa) – long dismissed as a marginal, opportunistic, or even redundant force – suddenly finds itself thrust into the national spotlight, it is worth asking: whose interests are being served? The answer, in my suspect, lies less in the partys strength than in the desperation of those engineering Bangladeshs political future from behind the scenes.

At the center of this crisis stands Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel laureate turned “caretaker administrator”. Yunus has made no secret of his distaste for genuine elections. For him, a credible, competitive election is not the culmin...