Sheikh Hasina not coming to London

August 05, 2024
Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. File Photo

Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is not coming to London for now. She will take a decision about the next destination from Delhi after three or four days. A source confirmed to Daily Dazzling Dawn. Her younger sister, Sheikh Rehana, who has been permanently living in the UK for the last 48 years. She will give time to her sister in Delhi for the time being.

UK Awami League President Sultan Mahmud Sharif told this reporter on Monday afternoon, London time, My wife was her old friend. I am like his older brother.Here are her family members, including her sister and niece. She also lived in the UK for a long time in the late 1970s. Her sister's house is here. We exist; there is an organization. Hundreds of our UK expatriates in this country are ready to leave their homes for Bangabandhu's daughter. 

UK Awami League General Secretary Syed Sajidur Rahman Faruq said, I don't know whether she will come to London from Delhi. But we are waiting to welcome her.

Jamal Ahmed Khan, a close ally of the Sheikh Rehana family, told the Daily Dazzling Dawn that it will be decided after a few days where Netri will go from India. But it is confirmed that she is not coming to London for now.

There won't be a political comeback for Sheikh Hasina, according to her son, who told the BBC that his mother was "so disappointed that after all her hard work, for a minority to rise up against her".

Speaking to Newshour on the BBC World Service, Sajeeb Wazed Joy, who until today served as the prime minister's official adviser, said that his mother has been thinking of leaving the country for her own safety since yesterday, per her family's insistence.

Saida Muna Tasnim, High Commissioner of Bangladesh appointed to the UK, said that she does not know whether Sheikh Hasina has applied asylum from the UK government or not.