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This is Sheikh Hasina\u2019s second \u2018refuge\u2019 stay in Indiapublished at 07:19 GMT<\/p>\nThis is Sheikh Hasina\u2019s second \u2018refuge\u2019 stay in Indiapublished at 07:19 GMT<\/p>\n
07:19 GMT<\/p>\n
Devina Gupta
Reporting from Delhi<\/p>\n
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Sheikh Hasina (left) speaks with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi (right) in Delhi, June 2024<\/p>\n
On 5 August 2024, Sheikh Hasina’s military aircraft landed at the Hindon Airbase in Ghaziabad as she fled massive protests in Bangladesh. <\/p>\n
The day marked the start of a familiar refuge in a country which had helped her earlier. <\/p>\n
Just about five decades ago, she had arrived in India with her sister after their father, Bangladesh\u2019s first President – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was assassinated along with most of their family in a 1975 military coup. <\/p>\n
The sisters were abroad on holiday when the assassination happened. With nowhere to go they turned to India, a crucial ally of Bangladesh in the 1971 Liberation War against Pakistan. Hasina was granted political asylum by then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. <\/p>\n
She, along with her children, husband, and sister, lived in Delhi at the posh location of Pandara Road for almost six years under assumed identities.
\nDuring this period, she forged strong political ties with Indian leaders before eventually returning to Bangladesh and entering the political arena herself. <\/p>\n
Those in diplomatic circles still recall her especially warm relationship with India\u2019s former President Pranab Mukherjee, to whom she sent gifts until his passing to show gratitude for sheltering her and her sister in their hour of need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is Sheikh Hasina\u2019s second \u2018refuge\u2019 stay in Indiapublished at 07:19 GMT 07:19 GMT Devina GuptaReporting from Delhi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-267511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}