On Monday (Apr 7) , deposed Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina launched a fierce attack on the country’s interim government and its chief advisor Professor Muhammad Yunus, blaming the Nobel laureate for turning ‘peaceful Bangladesh into a country of militants and terrorists ‘ and promising to return home to get  justice delivered’. 

“Our politicians and workers are being killed and attacked brutally… it cannot be described in words. Everyone… our workers, cops, lawyers, journalists and artists are being targeted,” she said.

In a virtual interaction with family members of Awami League supporters from her safe shelter in India, where she has lived since her ouster in August last year. 

She asked her party cadres to keep a track of attacks on every activist of Awami League and build an elaborate database, according to a post shared on the party’s Facebook page.

Not so much the content of what she said, but  Hasina’s fusilade itself within less than a week after the much touted Modi-Yunus meeting on the sidelines of the BIMSTEC summit at Bangkok is what that makes it most interesting. 

The deposed PM has said more or less the same thing time and again in all her virtual interactions with her party leaders and activists,  ending them with a General MacArthur type “I will soon be back” promise.

One would imagine this was more to boost morale of party cadres who face tremendous persecution under the new dispensation, rather than being indicative of an imminent possibility. But Hasina’s vitriolic attack did indicate Delhi is not interested in stopping her .

According to Muhammad Yunus’ press chief Shafiqul Alam, the Nobel laureate had made a specific request to PM Modi to restrain Sheikh Hasina from ‘ making provocative statements by misusing India’s hospitality.’ He also claimed Yunus pushing for Sheikh Hasina’s extradition — a claim that did not find a place in the MEA statement on the sideline meeting or in the foreign secretary’s........

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