DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — The son of Bangladesh’s ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called on the country’s interim government to lift a ban on Hasina’s party, saying an election that excludes it would be a sham.

In an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday, Sajeeb Wazed Joy said Bangladesh would remain politically unstable if the current interim government, headed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, fails to hold an inclusive election.

“This ban has to be lifted, the elections have to be inclusive and free and fair,” Joy, who was a former adviser to the government headed by her mother, told the AP from Washington D.C.

“What is happening now really is an attempt to keep my mother and our political leaders from running in elections. This is political manipulation

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