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Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son, Sajeeb Wazed Joy, is likely to visit India to meet his mother in New Delhi, making it the first such reunion after the leader was ousted from the country last year.
According to a report by News18, Joy will travel to the national capital, where Hasina is believed to be residing after she fled Bangladesh following which he may go to Kolkata.
Hasina’s son recently got US citizenship and sources have told the news outlet that he has applied for a new passport after the current interim government of Bangladesh under Muhammad Yunus revoked his Bangladeshi one.
A former Awami League leader said, “We are very hopeful that he will meet Sheikh Hasina and speak with leaders who are in exile. The interim government has banned the Awami League in an unethical manner. This is part of their strategy to prevent the party from participating in the upcoming elections.”
Joy’s trip to India comes a week after the interim government banned Hasina's Awami League under anti-terrorism law.
“The official gazette notification will be issued in this regard on the next working day,” Yunus’s office said, describing it as a “statement of the council of advisers” or the Cabinet.
The statement said the council decided that the ban would remain effective until the completion of the “trial of the Awami League and its leaders in Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal in the interest of protecting the country’s security and sovereignty”.
It said the decision was also taken for the security of the leaders and activists of the July 2024 uprising that eventually led to the ousting of the Awami League regime alongside the complainants and witnesses of the trial in the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT).
Impact Shorts
More ShortsFormed in 1949, the Awami League led the movement for the autonomy of Bengalis in the then East Pakistan for decades and eventually led the Liberation War in 1971.
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