{"id":6386,"date":"2024-08-05T14:29:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T14:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=6386"},"modified":"2025-09-26T17:48:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T17:48:33","slug":"bangladesh-pm-steps-down-interim-govt-to-run-country-army-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=6386","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh PM steps down, interim govt to run country: army chief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

General Waker-Uz-Zaman urges people to stop violence and trust the army. Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister\u00a0Sheikh Hasina escaped to India. She was a very close friend of PM Modi. Student protests forced her to resign and leave the country. This event might have a far-reaching impact on the future of Bangladesh and the entire region. India may face more isolation in the region.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. \u2014 Reuters\/File <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Bangladeshi Prime Minister\u00a0Sheikh Hasina on Monday stepped down from her position, confirmed country’s army chief\u00a0General Waker-Uz-Zaman, prompted by\u00a0overwhelming protests over the quota system.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking during a presser after Hasina, 76, fled the country, General Zaman said the army will meet Bangladesh President\u00a0Mohammed Shahabuddin to deliberate on the formation of the interim government.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media reports said she had flown in a military helicopter with her sister and was headed to the eastern Indian state of West Bengal just across the border. Another report said she was headed to India’s northeastern state of Tripura.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reuters\u00a0could not immediately verify the reports.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Television visuals showed thousands of people pouring into the streets of the capital Dhaka in jubilation and shouting slogans. Thousands also stormed Hasina’s official residence ‘Ganabhaban’, shouting slogans, pumping fists and showing victory signs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Television visuals showed crowds in the drawing rooms of the residence, and some people could be seen carrying away televisions, chairs and tables from what was one of the most protected buildings in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“She has fled the country, fled the country,” some shouted.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Protesters in Dhaka also climbed atop a large statue of independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Hasina’s father, and began chiselling away at the head with an axe, the visuals showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Student activists had called for a march to the capital Dhaka on Monday in defiance of a nationwide curfew to press Hasina to resign, a day after deadly clashes across the country killed nearly 100 people. About 150 people were killed in protests last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Monday, at least six people were killed in clashes between police and protesters in the Jatrabari and Dhaka Medical College areas, the\u00a0Daily Star<\/em>\u00a0newspaper reported.\u00a0Reuters\u00a0<\/em>could not immediately verify the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bangladesh has been engulfed by protests and violence that began last month after student groups demanded the scrapping of a controversial quota system in government jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That escalated into a campaign to seek the ouster of Hasina, who won a fourth straight term in January in an election boycotted by the opposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source:- https:\/\/www.thenews.com.pk\/latest\/1216865-bangladesh-pm-flees-her-palace-as-protesters-roam-streets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

General Waker-Uz-Zaman urges people to stop violence and trust the army. Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister\u00a0Sheikh Hasina escaped to India. She was a very close friend of PM Modi. Student protests forced her to resign and leave the country. This event might have a far-reaching impact on the future of Bangladesh and the entire region. India […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[189,2321,39,1193,2323,265,1566,2112,2324,60],"class_list":["post-6386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-bangladesh","tag-former-pm-hasina","tag-india","tag-india-bangladesh","tag-instability-in-bangladesh","tag-modi","tag-students-protests","tag-unrest-in-bangladesh","tag-bangladeshi-pm-escaped-to-india","tag-geopolitics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6388,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386\/revisions\/6388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}