Sheikh Hasina’s Interview: After the coup in Bangladesh in August last year, PM Sheikh Hasina left the country. She has taken refuge in India for the last one and a half years. This is the first time Sheikh Hasina has given an interview to the media after her exile. In this, she spoke openly about the upcoming general elections in Bangladesh, the Awami League party, the criminal cases pending against her and her future plans. 78-year-old Hasina said that she lives freely in Delhi, but is also cautious considering her family’s past.
Sheikh Hasina’s Interview: She Wants To Return Home
Sheikh Hasina has also expressed her desire to return home. However, she has put forth a condition wherein she said in an interview with an agency that holding elections in Bangladesh without the Awami League would sow the seeds of further division in the country. Hasina has appealed to her supporters to boycott the general elections.
Hasina said the ban on the Awami League is not only unjust but also suicidal. After 15 years in power in Bangladeshi politics, she had to flee for her life last year. This was her first media address since then. Sheikh Hasina said the next government must have electoral legitimacy. Millions of people support the Awami League, so they will not vote under the current circumstances. If you want an effective political system, you cannot deprive millions of people of their right to vote.
Since her ouster, an interim government led by Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus has been governing the country and has pledged to hold national elections in February 2027, while she leads a nondescript life in India’s capital, New Delhi.
The protest and the subsequent invasion of the protesters on her Dhaka palace was a rather brutal reminder of the 1975 military coup that claimed the lives of her father and three brothers while she was abroad with her sister.
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