BULBUL HASAN from London

Within days of the Awami League regime’s collapse on August 5 last year, a steady stream of former ministers, MPs, and high-profile loyalists slipped out of the country, seeking safety in foreign shores.

Now, more than a year later, many of them have resurfaced in London, no longer hiding in silence but circling back into public view, trying to signal relevance even as their reputations remain under a cloud.

In the first few months of exile, they were in hushed conversations among the diaspora. They stayed indoors, tucked away in houses mostly in East London and in anonymous outer boroughs.

But gradually, they have become visible, appearing at political gatherings of party activists, attending social events, even showing up at demonstrations. The Bangladeshi community in London has begun to see the outlines of a once-powerful machine struggling to reassemble itself abroad.

Several former leaders have re-emerged through the UK Awami League (UK AL). Among them are Shofiqur Rahman Choudhury, former state minister for expatriates’ welfare, Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury, former mayor of Sylhet City Corporation and currently a SM

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