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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled after her 15-year rule ended abruptly<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, will return to the country when elections are declared, her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy says.<\/p>\n

Ms Hasina, who resigned and fled the country earlier this week following a massive unrest, is currently in India.<\/p>\n

Bangladeshi media say more than 500 people were killed in weeks of demonstrations against Ms Hasina. Many of them were shot by the police. <\/p>\n

Thousands were injured in the worst violence Bangladesh has seen since its war of independence in 1971.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cAbsolutely, she will come [to Bangladesh],\u201d Mr Wazed tells the BBC, saying his mother will return as and when the interim government decides to hold the polls.<\/p>\n

The military-backed interim government, headed by Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, was sworn in on Thursday along with 16 advisers.<\/p>\n

Two of the student protest leaders are among the advisers.<\/p>\n

Mr Wazed is an information technology expert who now lives in the US. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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After Sheikh Hasina fled the country on Monday, huge crowds stormed her official residence in Dhaka<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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He worked as an IT adviser for Ms Hasina for several years during her tenure as prime minister from 2009 to 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe will certainly go back,” her son says.<\/p>\n

“Whether she comes back into politics or not, that decision has not been made. She is quite fed up with how she was treated.”<\/p>\n

The student-led movement started as a protest against quotas in civil service jobs last month before becoming massive unrest to oust Ms Hasina following a brutal police crackdown.<\/p>\n

Mr Joy is confident that when the polls are held, the Awami League, the party of Ms Hasina, will emerge victorious.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am convinced that If you have elections in Bangladesh today, and if they are free and fair and if there\u2019s a level playing field, then the Awami League will win,” he says.<\/p>\n

Ms Hasina became prime minister for a fourth consecutive term in a controversial election held in January 2024<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sajeeb Wazed Joy served as a adviser to the prime minister on technology and has defended his mother’s record<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The main opposition parties boycotted the election saying under Ms Hasina\u2019s government there could not be \u201cany free and fair election\u201d.<\/p>\n

Her son termed the current interim government as unconstitutional and said elections should be held within 90 days.<\/p>\n

However, he was a bit circumspect about his political ambitions or whether he would return to the country to stand for the leadership of the Awami League, following in the footsteps of his grandfather, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding leader of Bangladesh, and Ms Hasina.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo decision has been made in this regard. I never had political ambitions,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

But he adds that he was upset over the way the protesters had ransacked and set fire to their ancestral homes, including the museum dedicated to his grandfather in Dhaka.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder these circumstances, I am quite angry, I will do whatever it takes,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Muhammad Yunus was sworn in on Thursday as head of an interim government in Bangladesh<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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He says he is in touch with party supporters who are very upset and outraged over what happened in the past few weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf 40,000 protesters or so can force the government to resign, then what happens if protests are held by the Awami League, which has millions of supporters?\u201d he asserts.<\/p>\n

Ms Hasina and her sister (Rehana Siddiq) have been stranded in Delhi since Monday. <\/p>\n

India has been a strong supporter of the Bangladeshi leader. <\/p>\n

There have been reports she is trying to seek asylum in the UK, the United Arab Emirates or Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose questions about her visa and asylum, they are all rumours,” her son says. <\/p>\n

“She\u2019s not applied anywhere. She\u2019s staying put for the time being, watching how the situation unfolds in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer ultimate goal is always to go back home in Bangladesh.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked about well-documented human rights violations and extra-judicial killings during his mother\u2019s 15-year tenure, he says some mistakes were made.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, there were individuals in our government who made mistakes, but we always righted the ship,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had one minister\u2019s son, who was a member of the special police force. He is in jail convicted of extra-judicial killings. That\u2019s unprecedented.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mother tried to do the right thing in terms of arrests,\u201d her son insists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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