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NEW DELHI:
Former Bangladesh Prime Minister and Awami League leader Sheikh Hasina Wajid has said about the protests against her government in July last year and her move to India with her younger sister, "God saved us, otherwise there was no chance of escape this time."
According to Indian media reports, the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, who is based in India, said in an audio statement released in Bengali that she is grateful to Allah for saving her from being killed.
Referring to past attacks on him, he said he believed that God had saved his life and that perhaps he would be asked to do something great.
Sheikh Hasina said that we escaped death by only 20 to 25 minutes. I understand the survival of August 21, the Kotali Para bomb attack, and August 5, 2024, there is a purpose of Allah in this and it is the grace of Allah, otherwise I had no chance of survival this time.
The 77-year-old leader of the Awami League accused her political opponents in Bangladesh of plotting to kill her in order to silence her voice.
The former prime minister, wanted in Bangladesh in corruption cases, said that the world has learned how his opponents conspired to kill him, but he should be safe and he is sure that God wants more work from him.
He said, "I am in great difficulty, I am without my country, my home, everything has turned to ashes."
It should be noted that Sheikh Hasina Wajid has been attacked in the past as well, including on August 21, 2004, when she was addressing a party rally as the opposition leader, where a grenade attack took place. However, she survived, but 24 people were killed.
Earlier in 2000, she was attacked when she was the Prime Minister and was scheduled to address a rally in Kotalipara Upazila, Gopalganj district, and the police recovered a 76-kg bomb 50 feet from the stage.
It should be noted that last year, the student-led People's Movement in Bangladesh held historic protests against her government, and as a result, she was forced to abandon her 16-year rule and flee the country on August 5 and settled in India, where she is still present.
Bangladeshi security forces had informed Sheikh Hasina Wajid to leave her official residence for 45 minutes because angry protesters were moving towards the Prime Minister's House and her life was also in danger.
Sheikh Hasina initially moved to a nearby military airbase and later flew to India on an Air Force plane with her sister Rehana Sheikh.
Shortly after the former prime minister left his official residence, angry protesters stormed the prime minister's residence and set fire to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's museum.
An interim government has been established in Bangladesh under the leadership of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, which is supported by the country's armed forces, and the interim government had demanded that India send Sheikh Hasina back to Bangladesh.
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