Bangladeshi ex-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was forced out of her home country after being ousted in her Monday’s resignation, might stay in India until she is granted political asylum in a third country, this media learned.
Hasina, 76, an employee who left Bangladesh for southern neighbor India after one month of large-scale, nonstop violent anti-government demonstrations all over Bangladesh, has applied to the UK for asylum.
Rehana, a UK citizen, is another sister accompanying Hasina, although the Prime Minister’s second term is in turmoil. The sources say that the UK has not made any official statement on the issue of asylum to Hasina.
Rehana is the younger daughter of ‘father of Bangladesh’ Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Sheikh Fazilatun Necha Mujib and the younger sister of Sheikh Hasina. Tulip Siddiq is in the British Parliament representing the Labor Party, and she is Rehana’s daughter.
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Another ANI said at 1830 hours, Bangladesh Air Force’s C-130 transport aircraft AJAX1413 with Hasina and sister reaches Hindon Air Base in Ghaziabad. The movement of the said aircraft was observed by the Indian Air Force and security agencies from the time it crossed the Indian airspace up to the Hindon airbase in Ghaziabad, it added.
Later, India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and other top security officials paid a visit to the latter at the airbase and promised she would be under maximum protection. Personal security of Hasina is being ensured by the Indian Air Force and other agencies of security.
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After that, the incumbent and vulnerable prime minister would be transferred to a secure location in the nation’s capital. Hearing that she would fly to London is the information that I have heard. Going by the sources, Hasina is scheduled to have interactions with other key Indian bureaucrats on Wednesday.
