New Delhi: Ousted former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday opened up on her plans to return to Bangladesh.

“I would, of course, love to go home, so long as the government there is legitimate, the Constitution is being upheld, and law and order genuinely prevail,” she told news agency Reuters in an email interview. Read Also Bangladesh Prosecutor Seeks Death Penalty For Sheikh Hasina Over 2024 Protest Killings

The 78-year-old added that she would not return under any government formed after elections that exclude her party and intends to remain in India, where she fled in August 2024 following a deadly student-led protest.

Speaking on the ban on her party, Hasina said, "The ban on the Awami League is not only unjust, it is self-defeating."

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