India’s ‘refugee’ Sheikh Hasina, what is Modi government thinking?
Bangladesh dictator Sheikh Hasina fled to India in the face of mass revolution. His younger sister Sheikh Rehana was also with him. The day of resignation and escape was August 5. After that 45 days of stay in the country have passed.
Diplomatic passports are valid for one and a half months or 45 days. However, the interim government is said to have revoked his diplomatic passport. As such, the question has been raised whether the 45 days were valid or not. However, since Hasina fled, very little has been said about her on the Indian side.
On August 6, Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said that Sheikh Hasina has come to India on very short notice. After that, last Tuesday, Indian media NDTV expressed his opinion about maintaining good relations with regard to Bangladesh, referring to ‘what happened in the country as their internal matter’, but he did not open his mouth about Sheikh Hasina.
Meanwhile, in a report on September 9, another Indian media outlet, Geo News, reported that almost a month after the current interim government of Bangladesh came to power, the administration led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus said that they are taking legal action to bring back former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India last month after violent protests. will start
The report also said that the head of the International Criminal Tribunal (ICT) of Bangladesh Mohammad Tajul Islam told reporters that the main criminal has fled the country, we will start legal process to bring him back.
Although after hundreds of cases against Sheikh Hasina, will she return to the country or can she return or can she be returned? However, the ICT chief prosecutor told French media AFP that Bangladesh has an extradition treaty with India, which was signed in 2013.
However, various reports published in Indian media including Pakistan’s Geo TV have given the impression that Sheikh Hasina is unlikely to be handed over to Bangladesh. However, what kind of decision the country will take depends on them.
Meanwhile, on September 1, the foreign advisor of the interim government of Bangladesh, Towhid Hossain said that if the court says, initiatives will be taken to bring Sheikh Hasina back from India. Sheikh Hasina left the post of Prime Minister on August 5 in a mass student uprising and left for India. When asked what status she is in India now, he told reporters, ask India what status Sheikh Hasina is at the moment.
In response to another question, Touhid Hossain said, if the court says so, then the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will take initiative to bring Sheikh Hasina back. Whether India gives or not, it is up to them. But India can give if it wants.
Last September 5, The Hindu reported in their report, the Chief Advisor of Bangladesh’s interim government expressed anger about Sheikh Hasina in an interview given to the Indian news agency Press Trust of India (PTI). Muhammad Yunus. Nobel Peace Prize winning economist Prof. Muhammad Yunus said in an interview that the former prime minister should remain silent while in India until he asks for Bangladesh’s return.
Professor Yunus Sheikh Hasina termed various political statements as ‘unfriendly’ and said that nobody is comfortable with Sheikh Hasina’s position in India. Because, we want to bring him back to the country to be brought to justice. He is staying in India and speaking at the same time; Which is causing the problem. If he had kept silent, we would have forgotten (the matter); People also forget; Because he lived in his own world. But sitting in India, he is talking and giving various instructions. Nobody likes it.
He said, we have said quite strongly, he should keep quiet. This is unfriendly behavior towards us. He has taken refuge there and is campaigning from there. Not so – he went there the normal way. He went there because of popular upheaval and public outrage.
Then on September 17, Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar told NDTV that what happened in the country is their internal matter. Bangladesh is our neighbor. On our part we want to continue the relationship as before. There is good trade between the two countries…good people-to-people relations…that’s how I want to maintain relations.
Jaishankar did not comment on Sheikh Hasina that day. It is not known whether he will go to any country other than India. However, the UK refused to accept him.
Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has commented on Bangladesh’s ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s stay in India. In an interview given by the Indian media Firstpost today, he said that many leaders left the country and went abroad. As for Sheikh Hasina, if she is out of the country, let her stay out. We all want Bangladesh to return to normalcy.
