Ousted Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina has delivered a defiant virtual address to the Foreign Correspondents' Club of South Asia in New Delhi, ahead of what she described as her planned homecoming, prompting an unusually sharp same-day rebuke from Bangladesh's Ministry of Foreign Affairs that accused India of allowing an "absconding convicted genocider" to attack the Bangladeshi state from Indian soil. The statement said Bangladesh was "outraged" and it was "an affront to the sovereignty of Bangladesh”. India has said the interaction was organised by a private media entity and the Government of India has no involvement whatsoever in it and neither does it endorse any views expressed at the forum.