Ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled to New Delhi in August 2024 following student-led protests against government job quotas, has said she plans to remain in India.

Hasina, whose father and three brothers were killed in a 1975 military coup while she and her sister were abroad, said in a recent interview with Reuters that she lives freely in Delhi but remains cautious given her family’s violent history.

The supporters of Awami League, of which Hasina is the president, will be boycotting the national election taking place in 2026, she said. This is the ex-leader's first media appearance since her exile after governing Bangladesh for over a decade.

“The ban on the Awami League is not only unjust, it is self-defeating,” she said. “The next government must have elector

See Full Page