India, Aug. 21 -- AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday said that if the government wanted to deport illegal Bangladeshi nationals from India, they should begin with deposed former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who was deposed by protests last year.

Hasina has been living in India since her government was ousted in August 2024.

"Why are we keeping that deposed leader (Sheikh Hasina) in the country? Send her back. She is also a Bangladeshi, isn't it?" Owaisi said in an interview with The Indian Express.

Owaisi said while "poor Bengali-speaking Indians from Malda and Murshidabad" were being sent back from Pune to Kolkata and "dumped in no man's land", India was providing shelter to "one Bangladeshi living in our country and creating p...