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 the moment in India.

Bangladeshi media say greater than 500 folks have been killed in weeks of demonstrations towards Ms Hasina. A lot 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’s 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 info expertise 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 kind 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 huge unrest to oust Ms Hasina following a brutal police crackdown.

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

“I’m satisfied that In case you have elections in Bangladesh in the present day, and if they’re free and honest and if there’s a stage taking part in subject, then the Awami League will win,” he says.

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

The principle opposition events boycotted the election saying beneath Ms Hasina’s authorities there couldn’t be “any free and honest 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 best way the protesters had ransacked and set hearth to their ancestral properties, together with the museum devoted to his grandfather in Dhaka.

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

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

“If 40,000 protesters or so can drive the federal government to resign, then what occurs if protests are held by the Awami League, which has hundreds of 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 studies she is attempting 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 interim, watching how the scenario unfolds in Bangladesh.

“Her final aim is all the time 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.

“In fact, there have been people in our authorities who made errors, however we all the time righted the ship,” he provides.

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

“My mom tried to do the suitable factor by way of arrests,” her son insists.