India, Aug. 5 -- Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Wednesday that although she was forced away from her country, she was "never separated" from her people.

Speaking at the first press conference in Delhi since her ouster in August 2024 at a Foreign Correspondents Club of South Asia event, which she joined remotely, Hasina's voice choked repeatedly while remembering her father, family and countrymen who were killed in Bangladesh's war of Liberation and since then.

"For the last two years, I watched my beloved Bangladesh suffer...This is not the Bangladesh we built; this is not the Bangladesh for which 3 million people sacrificed their lives in 1971," she told the gathering.

She alleged that "organised groups" turned...