New Delhi: Exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen said the ousted Bangladesh premier Sheikh Hasina had thrown her out of the country in order to please ‘Islamists’ who now who forced Hasina to leave the country.
Taslima Nasreen, author of bestselling novel ‘Lajja’, was responding to Sheikh Hasina’s escape to India in the midst of seething student protest that claimed nearly 300 lives over several weeks.
"Hasina in order to please Islamists threw me out of my country in 1999 after I entered Bangladesh to see my mother in her deathbed and never allowed me to enter the country again. The same Islamists have been in the student movement who forced Hasina to leave the country today," Nasreen posted online.
Hasina who is currently in India is likely to fly to London seeking asylum in the UK.
Taslima Nasreen accused Hasina of allowing "Islamists to grow" and criticised the Army rule in her country, calling for democracy.
In her earlier post Nasreen said: "Hasina had to resign and leave the country. She was responsible for her situation. She made Islamists to grow. She allowed her people to involve in corruption. Now Bangladesh must not become like Pakistan. Army must not rule. Political parties should bring democracy & secularism".
Nasreen left Bangladesh in 1994 after fundamentalist outfits issued death threats to her over her 1993 book "Lajja", which was banned in Bangladesh.
The jailed leader Khaleda Zia was the prime minister at that time and the author has been living in exile since.
Nearly 100 people died in Bangladesh on Sunday when protesters clashed with police, which made Hasina eventually stepping down as the Prime Minister.
Protesters barged into the Prime Minister's residence on Monday, vandalizing and looting, just as Hasina resigned and left the country in a military plane.
Alongside, the country's army chief called a press conference and declared an interim government would be in place to run the country.