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NEW DELHI\/DHAKA, Oct 29 – Millions of supporters of Bangladesh\u2019s Awami League will boycott next year\u2019s national election, after the party was barred from contesting the polls, ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told Reuters on Wednesday from her exile in New Delhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hasina, 78, said she would not return to Bangladesh under any government formed after elections that exclude her party, and plans to remain in India, where she fled in August 2024 following a deadly student-led uprising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An interim government headed by Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus has governed Bangladesh since Hasina\u2019s ouster and has pledged to hold elections next February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe ban on the Awami League is not only unjust, it is self-defeating,\u201d Hasina said in emailed responses to Reuters \u2014 her first media engagement since her dramatic fall from power after 15 straight years at the helm of Bangladeshi politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe next government must have electoral legitimacy. Millions of people support the Awami League, so as things stand, they will not vote. You cannot disenfranchise millions of people if you want a political system that works.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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