Sajeeb Wazed Joy dismissed reports that claimed she had sought asylum in the United States or the United Kingdom.
Sajeeb Wazed Joy, the son of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, said in an interview on Wednesday that his mother didn’t want to leave the country. He said their family had to convince her to flee Dhaka. He said he told his mother that the mob would kill her.
“I was worried not because she was leaving Bangladesh, but because she didn’t want to leave Bangladesh. We had to convince her. I said this is not a political movement anymore, this is a mob … they are going to kill you,” Joy told Deutsche Well.
Sajeeb Wazed Joy dismissed reports that she had sought asylum in the United States or the United Kingdom. He said Sheikh Hasina would stay in Delhi for a while.
Sheikh Hasina fled Dhaka in a military aircraft on Monday and reached Ghaziabad’s Hindon airport. She was whisked away to a safe location.
Hours after she left her country, a mob of students protesting against quotas in government jobs, ransacked her house.
He said the decision to resign had been taken a day before. However, she was forced to resign because thousands of protestors began marching towards her house.
“She had made the decision a day earlier. Only a few of us knew that she would announce she was resigning and that she planned to ensure a transition of power according to the Constitution. But when they (protesters) began marching towards Ganabhaban, we said out of fear, there was no more time. You have to leave now,” he said.