Hasina should be brought back home and tried: GM Quader to PTI

Jatiya Party Chariman Golam Mohammad Quader has suggested that former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina should be brought back to Bangladesh and put on trial.

In an interview with India's PTI news agency, Quader, the former Bangladeshi minister made this statement.

76-year-old Quader, who was the Leader of the Opposition in the recently dissolved National Parliament of Bangladesh, made these remarks in the context of the widespread student protests against a controversial quota system in government jobs. The protests eventually escalated into an anti-government demonstrations, forcing Hasina to resign and flee to India. The National Parliament was dissolved the following day on August 6.

Quader emphasised that Sheikh Hasina should be extradited from India and tried in Bangladeshi courts for crimes committed during her tenure.

During the interview, the JaPa leader also rejected the claims from some quarters in Bangladesh blaming India for the flood situation, labeling such statements as "misleading." Quader criticised the misuse of anti-India sentiment to wrongly attribute natural disasters to New Delhi.

The veteran politician stated, ‘It is incorrect to blame India for the floods in Bangladesh. Such claims are misleading. How can one blame someone for a natural disaster? Water will naturally flow into lower areas. The real issue we are facing is the lack of water release from India’.

He suggested that India could have provided earlier warnings, allowing Bangladesh to better prepare for the floods.