Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheik Hasina has tendered her resignation as pressure coupled with deadly protest in history hit the country.
The protest started due to jobs quoter allocation to the family of war veterans in the country.
GLOBAL TRACKER this morning learned that there are reports that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has left Dhaka in the face of mass protests.
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“She and her sister have left Ganabhaban [the prime minister’s official residence[ for a safer place,” a source close to the leader told AFP.
“She wanted to record a speech. But she could not get an opportunity to do that,” the source said.
The report could not be independently verified.
However, this newspaper recalled that protests began last month over governmental job quotas and have since expanded into nationwide unrest amid a crackdown by authorities.
Protesters are now demanding the resignation of long-term Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
“This student-citizen uprising will continue until the fall of Sheikh Hasina,” protest coordinator Asif Mahmud said in a message on Facebook late on Sunday. “Tomorrow is the ‘March to Dhaka’. Travel to Dhaka now to witness history. Join the ultimate fight,” he said.
The violence has so far resulted in the deaths of nearly 300 people.
The tension was simmering in Dhaka on Monday, after authorities announced a nationwide curfew the previous evening.
Army tanks and police vehicles were on the streets and security forces patrolled on foot, an online news channel showed. There was almost no civilian traffic, barring a few motorcycles and three-wheel taxis.
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SOURCE: ALJAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES