BNP leader claims Hasina govt’s ‘misrule’ led to mass movement

Shillong: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Salahuddin Ahmed, who has been living in Meghalaya since 2015, on Wednesday claimed that widespread protests in his country were the result of PM Sheikh Hasina's “misrule”.
Alleging that the Awami League govt led by Hasina was responsible for his “disappearance” from Bangladesh nine years ago, he said he now hopes to return home.
Ahmed, who had served as the communications minister from 2001 to 2006 when the BNP was in power, earlier claimed he was abducted from Bangladesh and had no idea how he reached Shillong in May 2015.
“The mass movement was the result of misrule for three consecutive terms, flawed elections and absence of the rule of law. It was her (Hasina’s) fate,” the BNP leader claimed.
Hasina resigned as the Bangladesh PM on August 5 following massive anti-government protests. “People of Bangladesh strongly believe that Sheikh Hasina was responsible for my disappearance from my country,” Ahmed told a group of journalists here. PTI