Sheik Hasina, who resigned as Bangladesh’s prime minister and fled the country on Monday following weeks of protests, did not want to leave at all but did so on the family’s insistence, his US-based son and former Chief Advisor Sajeeb Wajed Joy told NDTV.
“She wanted to stay, she did not want to leave the country at all. But we kept insisting that it wasn’t safe for her. We were concerned for her physical safety first; so we persuaded her to leave,” her son Joy told NDTV’s Marya Shakil in a telephonic interview.