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A video has gone viral across Bangladeshi social media showing the power cutting out live on Bangla TV in the middle of the Foreign Affairs State Minister’s speech — an embarrassing moment that has drawn widespread mockery and renewed public anger over the country’s ongoing electricity crisis, coming just two days after the Power Minister stood in parliament and declared there is no load shedding in Bangladesh. The clip, which spread rapidly online under the hashtags #loadshedding and #banglatv, shows the Foreign Affairs State Minister mid-sentence when the studio suddenly goes dark — a moment that struck many viewers as deeply ironic given the government’s repeated insistence that the country’s power situation is under control. The timing could not have been worse for Power Minister Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku. On June 7, just two days before the embarrassing on-air outage, the minister told parliament that Bangladesh currently has no electricity shortage. “There is no load shedding due...

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