Sheikh Hasina must ‘keep quiet’ in India till Bangladesh seeks her extradition, says Muhammad Yunus
The head of the country’s interim government said relations between Dhaka and Delhi were ‘at a low’, adding that they needed to work together to improve them.
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Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina must not comment about the situation in Bangladesh until Dhaka requests her extradition from India, Muhammad Yunus, the head of the country’s interim government, told PTI on Sunday.
“If India wants to keep her [Hasina] until the time Bangladesh [government] wants her back, the condition would be that she has to keep quiet,” Yunus said in the interview that was published on Thursday.
Yunus also said that bilateral ties between India and Bangladesh were “at a low”, emphasising the need for Dhaka and Delhi to cooperate and improve their relations.
Yunus took charge as head of the interim government in Bangladesh on August 8, three days after Hasina resigned as the prime minister and fled to India.
The Awami League leader fled the country after massive student-led protests against a controversial quota scheme for government jobs – which began in July – snowballed into a broader agitation against her government.
“No one is comfortable with her stance there in India because we want her back to try her,” Yunus told PTI. “She is there in India and at times she is talking, which is problematic. Had she been quiet, we would have forgotten it; people would have also forgotten it as she would have been in her own...
