Ousted PM will return to Bangladesh, son says

The ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, will return to the nation when elections are declared, her son Sajeeb Wazed Pleasure says.

Ms Hasina, who resigned and fled the nation earlier this week following an enormous unrest, is at present in India.

Bangladeshi media say greater than 500 folks have been killed in weeks of demonstrations towards Ms Hasina. Lots of them have been shot by the police.

Hundreds have been injured within the worst violence Bangladesh has seen since its conflict of independence in 1971.

“Completely, she is going to come [to Bangladesh],” Mr Wazed tells the BBC, saying his mom will return as and when the interim authorities decides to carry the polls.

The military-backed interim authorities, headed by Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, was sworn in on Thursday together with 16 advisers.

Two of the coed protest leaders are among the many advisers.

Mr Wazed is an data know-how professional who now lives within the US.

He labored as an IT adviser for Ms Hasina for a number of years throughout her tenure as prime minister from 2009 to 2024.

“She will definitely return,” her son says.

“Whether or not she comes again into politics or not, that call has not been made. She is sort of fed up with how she was handled.”

The coed-led motion began as a protest towards quotas in civil service jobs final month earlier than changing into large unrest to oust Ms Hasina following a brutal police crackdown.

Mr Pleasure is assured that when the polls are held, the Awami League, the get together of Ms Hasina, will emerge victorious.

“I’m satisfied that You probably have elections in Bangladesh at present, and if they’re free and truthful and if there’s a degree taking part in area, then the Awami League will win,” he says.

Ms Hasina grew to become prime minister for a fourth consecutive time period in a controversial election held in January 2024.

The principle opposition events boycotted the election saying underneath Ms Hasina’s authorities there couldn’t be “any free and truthful election”.

Her son termed the present interim authorities as unconstitutional and stated elections needs to be held inside 90 days.

Nevertheless, he was a bit circumspect about his political ambitions or whether or not he would return to the nation to face for the management of the Awami League, following within the footsteps of his grandfather, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding chief of Bangladesh, and Ms Hasina.

“No resolution has been made on this regard. I by no means had political ambitions,” he says.

However he provides that he was upset over the way in which the protesters had ransacked and set hearth to their ancestral properties, together with the museum devoted to his grandfather in Dhaka.

“Beneath these circumstances, I’m fairly indignant, I’ll do no matter it takes,” he says.

He says he’s in contact with get together supporters who’re very upset and outraged over what occurred previously few weeks.

“If 40,000 protesters or so can power the federal government to resign, then what occurs if protests are held by the Awami League, which has thousands and thousands of supporters?” he asserts.

Ms Hasina and her sister (Rehana Siddiq) have been stranded in Delhi since Monday.

India has been a powerful supporter of the Bangladeshi chief.

There have been experiences she is making an attempt to hunt asylum within the UK, the United Arab Emirates or Saudi Arabia.

“These questions on her visa and asylum, they’re all rumours,” her son says.

“She’s not utilized anyplace. She’s staying put in the meanwhile, watching how the state of affairs unfolds in Bangladesh.

“Her final aim is at all times to return dwelling in Bangladesh.”

Requested about well-documented human rights violations and extra-judicial killings throughout his mom’s 15-year tenure, he says some errors have been made.

“After all, there have been people in our authorities who made errors, however we at all times righted the ship,” he provides.

“We had one minister’s son, who was a member of the particular police power. He’s in jail convicted of extra-judicial killings. That’s unprecedented.”

“My mom tried to do the fitting factor when it comes to arrests,” her son insists.