NEW DELHI: The ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister who according to the military chief resigned and fled the country earlier this week following massive unrest and is currently in India will return to the country when elections are declared, said her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy who is based in United States.

Sajeeb Wazed Joy told news agency Reuters that her mother's mother never officially resigned. "She did not resign, she just didn't get the time," Wazed said to Reuters further adding, "She had planned to make a statement and submit her resignation. But then the protesters started marching on the prime minister's residence. And there was no time. My mother wasn't even packed. As far as the constitution goes, she is still the Prime Minister of Bangladesh." He also said that she is going to stay in Delhi for a little further adding that his sister was with her, referring to Saima Wazed, the World Health Organization's (WHO) Regional Director for South-East Asia, which has its headquarters in New Delhi.

Hasina, Bangladesh's longest-serving premier who was in her record fifth term, resigned and left her nation for India on Monday afternoon, arriving at the Indian Air Force's (IAF) Hindon base in Ghaziabad near Delhi in the evening. Her departure came after weeks of violent protests sparked by a quota system for government jobs, which escalated into clashes between protesters and security forces, resulting in hundreds of deaths. The military imposed a curfew, and mobile internet services were suspended to mitigate the unrest.

The protests, initially led by students, demanded the abolition of the quota system and eventually called for Hasina's resignation. The government's response, including labelling protesters as "terrorists" and "arsonists," further inflamed the situation. Bangladeshi media say more than 500 people were killed in weeks of demonstrations against Hasina. Many of them were shot by the police, in the worst violence Bangladesh has seen since its war of independence in 1971.

As protesting masses neared her official residence in Dhaka on August 5, Sheikh Hasina hopped on a military aircraft and fled to India. Meanwhile, a caretaker government headed by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has taken charge.

He also dismissed media reports of a revocation of her visa stating that no one has revoked the visa of the Awami League leader and neither has she applied for political asylum anywhere.