Dhaka, Dec. 6 -- Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said former Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina's stay in India is her personal decision influenced by the "circumstances", NDTV has reported.

He made the remark on Saturday while speaking to NDTV's CEO and Editor-In-Chief Rahul Kanwal at the HT Leadership Summit.

Asked whether Hasina would be welcome to stay in India for "as long as she wants", Jaishankar was quoted as saying: "Well, that's a different issue, isn't it? She came here in a certain circumstance, and I think that circumstance clearly sort of is a factor in what happens to her. But again, that is something in which she has to make up her mind."

Hasina has been staying in India since fleeing to the neig...