Shafiqul Alam also said that with the Awami League banned, voters will seek alternative candidates in next year’s Bangladesh elections

The Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal sentenced ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death for crimes against humanity, which also included directing destructive force during the June 2024 student-led protests.

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday honoured the “towering legacy” of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her birth anniversary and said “today, one remembers a figure who left a major imprint, for good and ill.”