As Indian billionaire Gautam Adani’s business empire and its practices have become a subject of intense global scrutiny, Bangladesh, too, seems to be drawn under the scanner. More and more experts are now coming out questioning the rationale behind Bangladesh’s power purchase deal with Adani Power (Jharkhand) Limited (APJL), which many of them have termed as “one-sided” and against the interests of Bangladesh. Amid such controversy, Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, adviser to the Prime Minister on energy, while responding to questions from the Indian media recently, said talks with Adani Group on power supply were “private” and “can't be made public.” It’s unclear whether the prime minister’s energy adviser meant commercial secrecy of the deal or the political compulsion alleged by The Washington Post on December 9, 2022. The question of commercial secrecy is no longer a valid argument, since a number of news organisations have obtained a copy of the contract and experts have published ...