External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s continued stay in India is a personal decision influenced by the situation that forced her to leave Dhaka.

Asked whether India would allow her to stay “as long as she wants," Jaishankar told NDTV, “Well, that's a different issue, isn't it? She came here in a certain circumstance, and I think that circumstance clearly sort of is a factor in what happens to her. But again, that is something in which she has to make up her mind.”

Hasina fled to India in August last year following widespread political unrest in Bangladesh during which hundreds were killed and thousands injured. Last month, the 78-year-old leader was sentenced to death in absentia by a special tribunal for “crimes against humanit

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