India 'playing Hasina card', says Bangladesh home minister

Bangladesh has openly criticized India for allegedly exploiting the Hasina card, which presents a challenge to India's aims of fostering amicable relations with Bangladesh. The home minister emphasized the importance of mutual respect and sovereignty between nations, expressing concerns that Hasina may be colluding wit

Home minister says India cannot avoid responsibility for statements Hasina makes from Delhi

MEA said Hasina’s press conference was hosted independently by a private press organisation

Dhaka wants the post-2024 political order to be viewed not only as a domestic transition but also as the basis of a more assertive foreign policy identity.

PoliticsDhaka has reacted angrily to former leader's news conference in New DelhiFormer Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted in a 2024 uprising and has been living in India ever since, has pledged to return to Bangladesh in December despite being sentenced to death in November 2025. © ReutersMASUM BI

Sheikh Hasina's son Sajeeb Wazed Joy claimed that foreign intelligence agencies, particularly Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), now operate with what he called "an open hand" in Bangladesh.

Deposed Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says she will return in December.

Former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina has questioned whether people are better off after the 2024 political upheaval.

Bangladesh’s ousted leader Sheikh Hasina vowed to return to her country despite facing a death sentence, calling it her “duty” to help rescue a country she described as sliding into economic distress and democratic decline.

Bangladesh asks India to clarify stance on ousted PM Hasina's planned speech in New Delhi  Dawn