After Sheikh Hasina’s Ouster, Interim Authorities Formation Possible In the present day

1. Bangladeshi President Mohammed Shahabuddin late final night chaired a vital assembly to debate the formation of a military-backed caretaker authorities. Military chief Normal Waker-Uz-Zaman, together with the pinnacle of the navy and airforce, and high leaders of a number of opposition events together with the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami celebration, attended the assembly.

2. President Shahabuddin additionally ordered the discharge of jailed former prime minister and key opposition chief Khaleda Zia, hours after her arch-rival Sheikh Hasina was ousted.

3. Military chief Normal Waker-Uz-Zaman – in an tackle to the nation – yesterday introduced that Sheikh Hasina had resigned and the Military would type an interim authorities. “The nation has suffered lots, the economic system has been hit, many individuals have been killed — it’s time to cease the violence,” mentioned Normal Waker.

4. Sheikh Hasina – the daughter of Bangladesh’s founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman – was given a 45-minute ultimatum to step down because the Prime Minister, it’s learnt.

5. Ms Hasina, who began her fifth time period as Prime Minister earlier this yr, left state capital Dhaka in a navy plane for India after resigning. The 76-year-old is accompanied by her youthful sister, Sheikh Rehana.

6. Sheikh Hasina met Nationwide Safety Advisor Ajit Doval night after touchdown on the Hindon Air Drive base in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad – round 30 km from Delhi. MS Hasina is predicted to go away for London later, sources advised NDTV, the place she is searching for political asylum.

7. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been briefed on the state of affairs in Bangladesh by Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. There isn’t any phrase but if Mr Modi will meet Mrs Hasina.

8. Western powers referred to as for calm in Bangladesh after Sheikh Hasina fled. America referred to as on all sides to “chorus from additional violence”, whereas the UN Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres referred to as for a “peaceable, orderly and democratic transition”.

9. Sheikh Hasina had sought to quell nationwide protests in opposition to her authorities since early July however she fled the nation after brutal unrest on Sunday during which almost 100 individuals have been killed, taking the loss of life depend because the anti-government demonstrations started to over 300. 

10. Protests started in June after scholar teams’ calls for for the scrapping of a controversial quota system in authorities jobs escalated right into a motion searching for the tip of her rule.

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