Sheikh Hasina
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Oct 25, 2026
Suhasini HaidarGUEST
Bangladesh saw a very abrupt change.
Suhasini HaidarGUEST
with Sheikh Hasina being really pushed out of the country.
Suhasini HaidarGUEST
Nepal saw the toppling of the entire political system because all the traditional parties went away in the elections that followed, but they really toppled the government, the Gen Z protesters.
Suhasini HaidarGUEST
What we're seeing in India is perhaps part of a regional trend, but it's something more.
Suhasini HaidarGUEST
Bangladesh saw a very abrupt change.
Suhasini HaidarGUEST
with Sheikh Hasina being really pushed out of the country.
Suhasini HaidarGUEST
Nepal saw the toppling of the entire political system because all the traditional parties went away in the elections that followed, but they really toppled the government, the Gen Z protesters.
Suhasini HaidarGUEST
What we're seeing in India is perhaps part of a regional trend, but it's something more.
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Recent events in India's neighborhood offer a sobering warning.
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In Bangladesh in 2024, student protests over government job quotas escalated into a wider uprising against Sheikh Hasina's government.
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A violent crackdown and mounting public anger preceded her resignation and departure from the country.
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Likewise, Nepal's Gen Z-led protests in 2025 exposed the dangers of political alienation and declining public confidence in established leadership.
Kenneth WollackGUEST
The protest in India is a student-led protest that calls itself the Cockroach Party, so named because the chief justice of the country described the students as cockroaches.
Kenneth WollackGUEST
And in Bangladesh, it was a student-led movement that led to the resignation of the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina.
Kenneth WollackGUEST
So I don't know whether these movements are not necessarily ideological movements.
Kenneth WollackGUEST
on the political scale.
Milan VaishnavHOST
And if you look at the past couple of years, there have been sources of tension, not just Pakistan, in terms of how the U.S. and India relate to one another in the broader South Asian sphere.
Milan VaishnavHOST
And probably the most prominent example of that is is what happened in Bangladesh, where the relationship with Sheikh Hasina proved to be a sticking point between Washington and New Delhi.
Milan VaishnavHOST
Now that that is in the rearview mirror, we have a new regime in Bangladesh.
Milan VaishnavHOST
We have a new government, relatively new government.
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Vijay GokhaleGUEST
We can call it an externally induced one.
Vijay GokhaleGUEST
It certainly was not of India's doing.
Vijay GokhaleGUEST
Secondly, I don't think Sheikh Hasina was brought to India by India.
Vijay GokhaleGUEST
She fled in what was essentially a military coup and she landed in India.
Adam CooperHOST
So I'm curious with that context, what it felt like for you when the deal was eventually signed, which it was on the 6th of June, 2015.
Adam CooperHOST
Prime Minister Modi comes to Dhaka, signs the agreement in the presence of then Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Adam CooperHOST
And also, what did Prime Minister Modi say to you once that deal had been done?
Pankaj SaranGUEST
He was extremely happy.
Suhasini HaidarHOST
In Nepal, in September 2025, there were Gen Z protests against the previous Oli government that led to a crackdown in which 17 protesters were killed by police Fire, a total of 77 died in that violence.
Suhasini HaidarHOST
In Bangladesh, in August 2024, hundreds of protesters were killed by the previous Hasina government and then in anti-Hasina riots.
Suhasini HaidarHOST
There's also some election violence.
Suhasini HaidarHOST
In Sri Lanka, in May 2022, about eight protesters were killed in the Haragalia violence.
Sushant SinghGUEST
There would always be a fear that they don't want to lose power.
Sushant SinghGUEST
And most people, as we have seen in South Asia with Sheikh Hasina, with the Pakistani military dictators, in Nepal, even with Rajapaksa in Sri Lanka, and so many places, or the military junta in Myanmar.
Sushant SinghGUEST
People, you know, autocrats or these kind of people with this kind of approach, uh, who believe that they are non-biological probably don't want to, uh, don't want to lose power at any cost.
Sushant SinghGUEST
We, we will probably see more oppression.
Shekhar GuptaHOST
In 2024, the protests took place, and that led to a change of government.
Shekhar GuptaHOST
Sheikh Hasina went out into exile in India.
Shekhar GuptaHOST
Professor Muhammad Yunus took over as caretaker, and then in February this year, Feb 26, the Tariq Rahman government came in.
Shekhar GuptaHOST
The elected BNP government came in, elected, of course, after holding an election where Awami League was banned from contesting.
Shekhar GuptaHOST
From 2003, there is a long gap of nearly nine years to the next IMF bailout.
Shekhar GuptaHOST
That is in 2012.
Shekhar GuptaHOST
This is when Sheikh Hasina is now in charge.
Shekhar GuptaHOST
And then the next tiny bit of bailout comes in 2020.
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