New Delhi: Bangladesh's interim government chief Muhammad Yunus is not in control of the administration and Islamist factions linked to terrorist groups are allowed to spread a hardline ideology, former prime minister Sheikh Hasina has said.

In a sharp attack on Yunis, Hasina, who has been living in India since the fall of her government in August 2024, said true democracy cannot exist in Bangladesh while the country is governed by a head of state with no electoral mandate.

In a piece she wrote for The Week magazine the Awami League leader said Bangladesh was once a bastion of \"religious tolerance and secularism\" but now it is witnessing daily acts of \"deplorable violence\" targeting religious minorities, women, girls and supporters of her party.

\"True democracy cannot exist while o

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