Dhaka: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has asked India to extradite ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to Bangladesh and let her face trial in the country. The party's Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleged that during her stay in India, Hasina has started various plots to thwart the revolution that happened in Bangladesh.
“It is our call to you that you should hand her over to the government of Bangladesh in a legal way. The people of this country have given the decision for her trial. Let her face that trial,” he was quoted as saying in Dhaka Tribune.
The BNP leader also alleged that India does not seem to keep its commitment to democracy by providing shelter to her. “Staying there, she has started various plots to thwart the revolution that happened in Bangladesh,” he alleged.
Mirza Fakhrul said that the people of Bangladesh do not consider her offenses as minor and charged that her "fascist" rule has weakened the country's independence and hindered the country's progress for the last 15 years.
During Sheikh Hasina's regime, she made a debt burden of Tk 18 lakh crores and siphoned off nearly US 100 billion dollars from the country, said the BNP Secretary General adding that all the institutions were destroyed in the country during her rule.
Hasina fled Bangladesh on August 5 and took refuge in India following weeks of violent protests in the country. The agitation led by students, initially over quota in government jobs for freedom fighters' kin, soon turned into a larger protest against what was described as Hasina's increasingly authoritarian turn.
"She has destroyed the nation, destroyed the economy and plundered it, and conducted ruthless killings. So accountability must be ensured. She is accountable to the people and that will happen,” said the senior BNP leader.
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