What the Awami League’s chief advisor said about returning to politics

Desk Report: Mehdi Hasan: A lot has happened since you and I last spoke. I think we last spoke in 2017. You were an ordinary citizen then, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist, but you weren’t running a country. A little over a year ago, student protesters in Bangladesh overthrew the Awami League government and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country. For two decades, she had been a de facto dictator in your country and had committed numerous human rights violations. Many were happy to see her go. What was…

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