Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy has said there will be no political comeback for his mother, saying she was “so disappointed.”
Speaking to Newshour on the BBC World Service, Joy, who was the ICT Affairs Advisor to the Prime Minister until Monday, said his mother had been considering resigning since Sunday and had left the country for her own safety after her family insisted.
Defending his mother’s record in power, he said: “She has turned Bangladesh around. When she took over power it was considered a failing state. It was a poor country. Until today it was considered one of the rising tigers of Asia. She’s very disappointed.”
Joy rejected accusations that the government had been heavy-handed in dealing with protestors: “You’ve had policemen beaten to death – 13 just yesterday. So what do you expect the police to do when mobs are beating people to death?”