NEW DELHI: Former Prime Minister of Bangladesh and Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina Wajid has said about the protests against her government and her relocation to India with her younger sister in July last year that Allah saved us, otherwise there was no chance of escape this time.
According to Indian media reports, the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, who is based in India, said in an audio statement released in Bengali that she is grateful to Allah who saved me from being killed.
Referring to the attacks on her in the past, she said that she is sure that Allah has saved her life, perhaps some big work will be taken from her.
Sheikh Hasina said that we escaped death by a difference of only 20 to 25 minutes. I understand the survival of August 21, the Kotali Para bomb attack, and August 5, 2024. There is a purpose of Allah in this and it is the grace of Allah, otherwise this time I had no chance of escape.
The 77-year-old Awami League chief accused her political opponents in Bangladesh of conspiring to kill her to silence her voice.
The former prime minister, wanted in Bangladesh in corruption cases, said that the world has learned how her opponents conspired to kill her, but she should be safe and she is sure that God wants more work from her.
She said that I am in great difficulty, I am without my country, my home, everything has turned to ashes.
It should be noted that Sheikh Hasina Wajid had been attacked in the past too, in which on August 21, 2004, she was addressing a party rally as the opposition leader where a grenade attack took place, however, she survived but 24 people were killed.
Earlier in 2000, she was attacked when she was the prime minister and was to address a rally in Kotalipara Upazila of Gopalganj district and the police recovered a 76-kg bomb 50 feet away from the stage.
It should be noted that last year, the student-led Awami Tehreek in Bangladesh held historic protests against her government, as a result of which she had to leave her 16-year rule and flee the country on August 5 and went to India, where she is still living.
Bangladeshi security forces had informed Sheikh Hasina Wajid to leave her official residence for 45 minutes because the angry protesters were moving towards the Prime Minister’s House and her life was also in danger.
Sheikh Hasina had initially moved to a nearby military airbase and later flew to India in an Air Force plane with her sister Rehana Sheikh.
Shortly after the former prime minister left the official residence, angry protesters stormed the prime minister’s residence and set fire to the Sheikh Mujibur Rahman museum.
An interim government has been established in Bangladesh under the leadership of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who is supported by the country’s armed forces and the interim government has demanded that India send Sheikh Hasina Wajid back to Bangladesh.
