Owaisi calls for joint initiative with Hasina to send Bangladeshis back

Hyderabad MP and AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has questioned the decision to grant asylum to ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in India. At an event on Thursday (August 21), Owaisi said that if the central government wants to expel illegal Bangladeshi infiltrators from India, then they should start the work with ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The Awami League government in Bangladesh fell on August 5 last year due to the movement. Sheikh Hasina then moved to India and has been in that country since then. At an event in the Indian Express, Owaisi questioned Narendra Modi’s government, why did we give shelter to Hasina in this country? She is also a Bangladeshi! The AIMIM leader alleged that poor Bengali-speaking Indians from Malda and Murshidabad are being forcibly brought from different states and released in ‘no man’s land’ on the Bangladesh border. He brought up the Hasina issue while questioning the Modi government’s ‘policy of expelling Bangladeshis’. Incidentally, after Sheikh Hasina left Bangladesh, several cases have been filed against her on charges including genocide. Dhaka has also sent a letter to New Delhi demanding her return. However, India has not responded to it so far.