India is monitoring attacks on Bangladesh minorities after Sheikh Hasina's exit

India's Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday (August 8) that it does not have any update on former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's next course of action. The ousted former Bangladeshprime minister has been stationed in Hindon airbase outside New Delhi since August 5, when she left her country after a mob of protesters began storming the Prime Minister's residence in Dhaka.

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is set to take over as interim adviser of Bangladesh government after garnering due support from the South Asian country's powerful army and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party's Khaleda Zia, who was released from prison after Hasina's ouster.

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said that the situation is still evolving in Bangladesh.

Sheikh Hasina is expected to stay in Delhi for a "little while".

When asked about India giving political asylum to Hasina, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal, while referring to External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar's statement in the parliament's upper house, the Rajya Sabha, said, "Our EAM has already explained the approval for former PM Sheikh Hasina to come to India was given at short notice."

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On August 6, External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar, while giving a suo motu statement in Rajya Sabha, said: "On 5th August, demonstrators converged in Dhaka despite the curfew. Our understanding is that after a meeting with leaders of the security establishment, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina apparently made the decision to resign. At very short notice, she requested approval to come for the moment to India. We simultaneously received a request for flight clearance from the Bangladesh authorities."

The MEA spokesperson on Thursday (August 8), while responding to the question on when Sheikh Hasina will leave India, said that "we do not have any update on her plan."

Jaiswal added that as far as New Delhi is concerned, "the interests of the people of Bangladesh are foremost in our mind."

When asked about reports of attacks on minority communities in Bangladesh, the MEA spokesperson said, "We are monitoring the situation."