That means we reject all forms of nationalism,” he saysPoet and public intellectual Farhad Mazhar has dismissed the legitimacy of Bangladesh’s interim government, criticising it for retaining a constitution shaped under former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s administration—even in the aftermath of the July Uprising. “Sheikh Hasina’s fascist constitution has remained intact. I do not think that is right.”“I do not consider a government operating under this constitution to be legitimate,” he added. “There has been a popular uprising in Bangladesh against fascism, fascist forces, and a fascist state apparatus. Challenging the prevailing understanding of law and constitutional legitimacy, Mazhar said: “Law is made by the British; the constitution belongs to the people.
