Amid violent protests in Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina resigned from the put up of Prime Minister of Bangladesh on August 5 and left the nation.
76-year-old Sheikh Hasina was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, which has a inhabitants of greater than 17 crore, since 2009.
College students in Bangladesh had been protesting for the final month over reservation in authorities jobs.
Beneath this reservation, 30 % reservation was being given to the households of freedom fighters who fought for the independence of Bangladesh in 1971.
Nevertheless, later the Supreme Courtroom of Bangladesh nearly abolished this quota system. However the protesters remained adamant on the demand for Sheikh Hasina’s resignation.
August 15, 1975: Sheikh Hasina, her husband Dr. Wazed and sister Rehana had been staying with Bangladesh Ambassador Sanaul Haque in Brussels.
From there they needed to go to Paris, however a day earlier than, Dr. Wazed’s hand received caught within the automobile door.
They had been nonetheless pondering whether or not to go to Paris or not, when at 6:30 within the morning, Ambassador Sanaul Haque’s cellphone rang.
On the opposite finish was Bangladesh’s Ambassador to Germany Humayun Rashid Chowdhury.
He instructed them {that a} navy revolt had damaged out in Bangladesh this morning. They need to not go to Paris and return to Germany instantly.
As quickly as Ambassador Sanaul Haque got here to know that Sheikh Mujibur had been killed within the navy revolt, he refused to present any assist to his two daughters and son-in-law.
And he even requested them to go away their home.
Recalling the incident at an occasion organised on Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s loss of life anniversary in 2016, Sheikh Hasina mentioned, “We turned a burden for him, though he had appointed her as Bangladesh’s ambassador to Belgium and it was a political appointment. He even refused to present us a automobile to go to Germany.
Nevertheless, they someway reached Germany with the assistance of Bangladesh’s ambassador to Germany Humayun Rashid Chowdhury.
Inside half an hour, Bangladesh’s overseas minister Dr Kamal Hussain, who was on a go to to Yugoslavia, additionally reached there.
That night, reporters from German broadcasting company Deutsche Welle and a few German newspapers got here to the ambassador’s home to take his feedback.
Sheikh Hasina and her sister Rehana had been so shocked that they didn’t discuss to him.
International Minister Kamal Hussain additionally didn’t say a phrase, though he was current there.
Ambassador Chowdhury did say that Sheikh’s two daughters had been with him.
In the meantime, Yugoslavia’s President Marshall Tito requested about their well-being however couldn’t determine the place they’d stay now.
Humayun Rashid Chowdhury’s son Nauman Rashid Chowdhury wrote an article within the 15 August 2014 problem of the well-known Bangladeshi newspaper ‘The Day by day Star’.
Within the article titled ‘Bangabandhu’s Daughters’, he mentioned, “My father requested the Indian Ambassador to West Germany YK Puri at a diplomatic perform whether or not India may grant political asylum to Sheikh Hasina and her household?”
“He replied that he would discover out. The following day he got here to fulfill my father at his workplace and mentioned that normally the method of granting political asylum in India is lengthy. He prompt that you’ve plenty of status in Delhi as a result of you may have been the top of the Bangladesh mission there earlier than independence. Indira Gandhi and her advisors DP Dhar and PN Haksar such as you. Why do not you contact them?”
Within the presence of Puri, Chaudhary referred to as DP Dhar and Haksar. However each had been out of India at the moment.
He was hesitant to name Indira Gandhi as a result of there was an enormous distinction of their standing. She was the Prime Minister of a rustic whereas Chaudhary was simply an atypical ambassador.
He had met Indira Gandhi a number of instances, however he had no contact along with her for the final three years.