Is Hasina bringing Joy, Putul into Awami League leadership?

Former prime minister and Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India after being ousted in the July Uprising, has reportedly finalised a plan to bring her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy and daughter Saima Wazed Putul into the party’s top leadership, according to BBC Bangla. BBC Bangla’s Delhi Correspondent Shubhojyoti Ghosh reported that Hasina intends to follow the “model” of India’s Congress Party, which has placed the next generation of the Gandhi family -- Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi -- in senior party roles. Political analyst Vinod Sharma told BBC Bangla that the Awami League, like the Congress, is a “family-centred” party, so it is not surprising that Hasina would turn to a Congress-style model for succession. Hasina has...