AL leaders want to return on 26 March: Indian Express report

AL leaders want to return on 26 March: Indian Express report

Having gone underground following the fall of the Awami League government, a number of party leaders – admitting to "some lapses" in governance and politics – now hope to return to the Bangladesh political front.
Speaking to The Indian Express, former liberation affairs minister Mojammel Haq, 78, said, "Thousands of Awami League workers have been forced out of their homes, they are in hiding, moving from place to place with no money even for food… still, the morale of the rank and file is high and we look to India to mobilise international opinion in the party favour," he said.
He said that there is a thought among senior leaders that "we should all go back on 26 March which is Bangladesh Independence Day".
Nahim Razzaq, a 44-year-old former MP, said almost all bail petitions of Awami League leaders were being rejected.
He said the situation was "dire" and that the Awami League leadership was "helpless" while they remained in hiding.