On 25 September 2024, while speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative on the sidelines of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly, Muhammad Yunus, Chief Advisor to Bangladesh's interim government, referred to Mahfuj as "the brain" of the Student-People's uprising, which culminated in the fall of Sheikh Hasina's administration.

[15] [16] Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury, an editor of the Indian newspaper The Economic Times, alleged that Alam is a former member of the Islamist fundamentalist organization, Hizb ut-Tahrir.

[18] On 16 December 2024, Mahfuj Alam showed Indian states of Tripura, Assam, and West Bengal a part of Bangladesh in an image shared in his Facebook post, while declaring the need for "a new geography and system".

[19][20][21] Alam also claimed that the cultures of Northeast India and Bangladesh have been suppressed by "Hindu extremists" and "anti-Bengal attitude" of the upper-caste Hindus.

[21] Harshil Mehta, an editor of the Indian newsportal News18, commented that his 'statement represents a direct threat to India’s sovereignty and hints at demographic changes through the persecution of Hindus.