Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid, who resigned and fled the country in August 2024 amid violent protests, confirmed on Wednesday that she has been living in India since her abdication – and she “would love to go home,” if “law and order genuinely prevailed.”
Hasina’s government was toppled by mass protests against an ethnic quota law for government jobs. After she resigned, she claimed she was forced out of office by the U.S. government because she would not relinquish control of Saint Martin Island, a small but strategically located island which is also claimed by neighboring Myanmar.
“I could have remained in power if I had left St. Martin’s and the Bay of Bengal to America,” Hasina claimed in August 2024.
Hasina left Bangladesh because she said there were threats against her life and was widely understood to have sought
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