Awami League president and former prime minister Sheikh Hasina will return to the country once democracy is restored, said her son Sajeeb Wazed, according to a report of the Press Trust of India.
Sajeeb鈥檚 remarks came days after he asserted that his mother, who stepped down and fled to India on Monday amid a student-led mass uprising, would not come back to politics.
In an interview with BBC World Service, he also said that his mother was so disappointed, as after all her hard work, a group of people rose up against her.
However, Sajeeb told PTI on Thursday, 鈥榊es, it is true that I had said she wouldn鈥檛 return to Bangladesh. But a lot has changed in the past two days following continuous attacks on our leaders and party workers across the country.鈥�
鈥業t has not yet been decided whether Sheikh Hasina would return to Bangladesh as a 鈥榬etired or active鈥� politician,鈥� he said.
鈥楴ow we are going to do whatever it takes to keep our people safe; we are not going to leave them alone,鈥� PTI quoted him as saying.
Besides, Sajeeb, in a video message on his Facebook page on Wednesday, said, 鈥楢L is the largest and oldest political party in Bangladesh, so we cannot just walk away from our people. She will definitely return to Bangladesh once democracy is restored.鈥�
He also asserted that the members of the Sheikh Mujibur Rahman family will neither abandon the people of Bangladesh nor leave the beleaguered Awami League in the lurch.
The ousted Bangladesh prime minister fled to India in a military aircraft following her resignation amid the countrywide student protests that initially began demanding the reform of the quota system in government jobs, which claimed more than 500 lives.