Last Updated on November 14, 2026 8:37 pm by INDIAN AWAAZ
Zakir Hossain, Dhaka
Bangladesh’s political and industrial tensions converged Saturday as Dhaka said it had completed legal steps to seek ousted former premier Sheikh Hasina’s extradition from India, garment factories halted operations and border guards were deployed near manufacturing hubs.
“We have done everything required of us under the legal process. What they [India] do next is up to them,” Law Minister Mohammad Asaduzzaman told reporters. Hasina, who fled to India after the 2024 uprising and was subsequently sentenced to death in absentia over the protest crackdown, has expressed a wish to return in December. She denies wrongdoing.
India’s foreign ministry has described extradition as a “legal matter” to be handled through due process.
Meanwhile, production stopped at 59 garment factories in Savar-Ashulia by Saturday afternoon, including 17 declared closed indefinitely, according to industrial police figures. Factory owners are considering wider closures amid continuing protests demanding higher minimum wages.
In Gazipur, workers from several factories blocked the Dhaka-Tangail highway following an unverified rumour that a colleague injured in earlier police clashes had died. Police dispersed the protesters and traffic resumed. Authorities deployed 34 platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh personnel across industrial areas of Dhaka, Gazipur and Narayanganj. The wage board is scheduled to meet Monday.
Political violence has also intensified pressure on Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) government. In Brahmanbaria on Friday, rival factions of the BNP’s student wing clashed over a local committee, injuring at least 10 people and damaging a local BNP office and an MP’s political office, police said.
In Khulna, BNP organiser Zakir Hossain was shot dead inside a shop Thursday night by unidentified motorcyclists. Police are investigating the motive.
Meanwhile, parliament witnessed heated exchanges between ministers and opposition lawmakers over an arson attack on National Citizen Party MP Nusrat Tabassum’s family property in Kushtia. She filed an attempted-murder case naming eight activists of Awami League-linked organisations and accusing others. Investigators have yet to establish responsibility.
Police also registered anti-terrorism cases involving 2,677 people following violence during a November 10 strike in Gopalganj, Hasina’s home district, where a police vehicle was torched.