Jabalpur, March 2 -- Taslima Nasreen, Bangladeshi writer and activist, strongly criticised the interim government in Bangladesh and said the country is now occupied by the extremist 'Jamaat-e-Islami' group.

She was addressing a program organised to mark the completion of 100 years of the Siddhibala Bose Library in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh.

Speaking to ANI, Nasreen spoke about the "bleak caricature" of Bangladesh, soiled by the destruction of the country's history and vandalising of statues of their freedom fighters.

"I think that the country is now occupied by the Jamaat-e-Islami jihadi and militant groups and they have been destroying the history of Bangladesh. They destroyed the sculptures of all freedom fighters, and they destroyed ...