Will come back to power with Hasina as PM, says Bangladesh ex-minister

Awami League leader and former foreign minister of Bangladesh Hasan Mahmud on Saturday claimed that his party “would come back to power, with Sheikh Hasina leading the government”.

He also criticised a United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) report on the July–August, 2024 student movement, calling it “highly biased”. Speaking to mediapersons here, Mahmud, alleged that the UNHCR report failed to account the violence against members of the Awami League and killings of thousands of police personnel during the unrest.

He was at the Press club of India and it was first time that Awami League leaders are meeting the press in India since the Hasina Government was ousted following street protests in August 2024.

The UNHCR report, was released a year back in February 2025. Mahmud also questioned the credibility of the casualty figures cited in the UN document, saying they were “one-sided” and lacked proper verification.

Replying to a question on whether his party was considering forming a government in exile, that they would return to Bangladesh with Sheikh Hasina leading them to form a government.

Mahmud, who was speaking along with Golam Maruf Majumdar Nijhoom, head of the legal team of the International Crimes Research foundation, also said that the Awami League was in the process of compiling a comprehensive account of killings and atrocities committed since the

He alleged that eight members of the Hindu community had been killed in the past two weeks alone. He said the party intended to submit its findings to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR), the European union (EU) and the Commonwealth Secretariat, urging them to either take action or independently verify the allegations.