Bangladesh protests Sheikh Hasina’s Delhi tackle, calls her ‘mass assassin’| India Information

78-year-old Sheikh Hasina has been in India since August 2024, following a student-led protest that ended her 15-year rule. She made her first public speech since then in an audio tackle to a packed press membership in Delhi on Friday.

She was discovered responsible in absentia by a Dhaka courtroom in November of incitement, issuing an order to kill and inaction to forestall atrocities and was sentenced to be hanged.

“The federal government and the folks of Bangladesh are stunned and shocked. Permitting the occasion to happen within the Indian capital and letting mass assassin Hasina overtly ship her hate speech… represent a transparent affront to the folks and the Authorities of Bangladesh,” Dhaka’s overseas ministry mentioned in a press release.

It mentioned permitting Hasina to make the speech set “a harmful precedent” that would “critically impair bilateral relations”.

Describing Yunus as a “corrupt, power-hungry traitor” who had a hand in a conspiracy to oust her authorities, Hasina mentioned: “On this grave hour, all the nation should rise united and galvanised by the spirit of our nice Liberation Warfare.

“To overthrow the foreign-serving puppet regime of this nationwide enemy at any price, the courageous little kids of Bangladesh should defend and restore the Structure written within the blood of martyrs, reclaim our independence, safeguard our sovereignty, and revive our democracy,” she added.

Hasina additionally known as for an finish to acts of violence and lawlessness in Bangladesh and an “ironclad assure” for the protection of spiritual minorities, girls and essentially the most weak sections of society. She demanded that the United Nations ought to conduct a “new and really neutral investigation” into the occasions for the reason that fall of her authorities.

She alleged Bangladesh was “plunged into an age of terror” after “Yunus and his anti-state militant accomplices” ousted her authorities in a “meticulously engineered conspiracy” in August 2024.

“Democracy is now in exile. Human rights have been trampled into the mud. Freedom of the press has been extinguished. Violence, torture, and sexual assault in opposition to girls and ladies stay unchecked. Non secular minorities face steady persecution. Regulation and order have collapsed,” she mentioned within the tackle.

The occasion was additionally addressed, in particular person or nearly, by different Awami League leaders, together with former training minister Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury and former overseas minister AK Abdul Momen, who reiterated a litany of fees in opposition to Yunus and contended that the upcoming election wouldn’t be free and honest with out their celebration’s involvement.