Hasina may outline Bangladesh return plans on August 5
New Delhi, Aug. 3 -- Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to detail her plans to return home at her first virtual interaction with the media in New Delhi on Wednesday, exactly two years after she fled Dhaka following the fall of her government.
Hasina has lived in self-exile in India since she left Bangladesh on August 5, 2024, when the Awami League regime dramatically collapsed in the face of massive student-led protests. Her plans to virtually address the media are unlikely to go down well with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) government, which has sought her extradition.
The deposed 78-year-old is set to address the virtual news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club in the evening on August 5, when she will "announce her homecoming and outline her vision for Bangladesh", according to the organisers of the event.
The event will also feature an address by Hasina's son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, and other Awami League leaders such as former education Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury Nowfel and former cricketer and MP Shakib Al Hasan.
Mahammad Ali Siddique, general secretary of Bangladesh Human Rights Watch, Shah Mohammad Bakhtiar, director of Bangladesh Human Rights Watch USA, security analyst Aminul Hoque Polash, and counter-terrorism analyst Abu Obaidha Arin are also expected to join the event.
Some of them will participate in person and others will appear virtually.
While Hasina has given several email interviews and virtually addressed online events, this is the first time she is expected to participate in a question-and-answer session....
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