Sheikh 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, her US-based son and former Chief Advisor Sajeeb Wajed Joy told the media, reports 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 reporter Marya Shakil in a telephonic interview.
"I spoke to her this morning. The situation in Bangladesh, as you can see, is anarchy. She is in good spirits but she is very disappointed. It's very disheartening for her because it was her dream to turn Bangladesh into a developed country and she worked so hard for it over the last 15 years, keeping it safe from militants and as well as from terrorism and in spite of all of that this vocal minority, the opposition, the militants have now seized power," he said.
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