Sajib Wajed, son of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has denied reports which claimed that his mother had accused America of plotting regime change in Bangladesh and said that if she had got a chance, she would have She would talk about this in her speech. In a post on X, Wajed described such reports as ‘completely false and fabricated’.
He wrote on X, ‘The resignation statement recently published in a newspaper in my mother’s name is completely false and fabricated. I have just confirmed with him that he has not given any statement before or after leaving Dhaka.
Earlier it was reported that Sheikh Hasina wanted to address the nation before resigning as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh and fled the country amid violent protests by students on August 5. Accused of plotting regime change.
According to an earlier version of the report, Sheikh Hasina revealed that she could have remained in power if she had ‘ceded St. Martin and the Bay of Bengal to the US.’ It was written in the letter, ‘If I had given St. Martin and the Bay of Bengal to America, I could have remained in power.’ However, her son Wajed has now denied his mother saying this.
It is known that St. Martin Island is located in the northeastern part of the Bay of Bengal, which is the southernmost part of Bangladesh. In his undelivered speech, the 76-year-old leader said he resigned so that he would not have to see a ‘procession of dead bodies’. Sheikh Hasina said in an anonymous letter that if she had remained in the country, more people would have lost their lives.
The letter reads, ‘Perhaps if I were in the country today, more people would have lost their lives and more property would have been destroyed. I withdrew myself, I came with your victory, you were my strength, you did not want me, then I went away myself, resigned.
Hasina gave clarification on Razakar comment
In the letter, the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh also clarified on her ‘Razakar’ comment and said that she never called the protesting students Razakars.
She said in the letter, ‘I want to reiterate to my young students that I never called you Razakars. My words have been distorted. I request you to watch the complete video of that day. A group has taken advantage of your threat. I am sure you will be able to realize this one day.
Actually, Sheikh Hasina had given a statement in July, in which she had mentioned the Razakars. During a press conference at his residence on July 14, when he was asked about the student protests, he replied, ‘If the grandchildren of freedom fighters do not get the (quota) benefits, then who will ? To the grandchildren of the Razakars?’
The term ‘Razakar’ is considered derogatory in Bangladesh, as it is used to describe those who supported the efforts of the Pakistan Army to suppress the Bangladesh Liberation War and are also accused of committing heinous crimes. This statement angered the students. Apart from this, in her letter Hasina said that she will return to her country soon.
Bangladesh’s strained relations with America
Relations between the US and Bangladesh deteriorated so much during Sheikh Hasina’s tenure that Washington said the January elections in which the Awami League returned to power were not free or fair. Months before she stepped down, Sheikh Hasina had claimed that ‘conspiracies’ were being hatched to topple her government and described a ‘white man’s’ plot to carve out a new ‘Christian country’ by separating Bangladesh and Myanmar. Was accused of.
In May she had said, ‘If I had given permission to a particular country to build an airbase in Bangladesh, I would not have had any problem.’
protests in bangladesh
Violence broke out on August 5 amid student protests and Sheikh Hasina resigned and moved to neighboring India. Where she is currently living. Minorities, particularly Hindus, have faced attacks in the Islamic nation following the violent uprising that led to the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s government. More than 230 people have been killed since the fall of the Awami League government on August 5. After this, Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus took oath as the head of the country’s caretaker government. Yunus will be the chief advisor in the interim government, which has been tasked with conducting new elections in Bangladesh.