HUNDREDS gathered in Dhaka to celebrate the fall of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Armed servicemen aboard military vehicles patrolled the streets of the capital, where residents cheered and waved Bangladeshi flags amid ongoing civil unrest.
To recall, Hasina resigned and fled Bangladesh recently, with Army Chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman announcing the formation of an interim government, with him as the caretaker.
This followed thousands of demonstrators storming Hasina’s official residence, ending her 15-year term.
The rally came after weeks of escalating violence over student protests against a quota system reserving 30 percent of government jobs for relatives of veterans from Bangladesh’s 1971 liberation war.
The government’s job quota system had already been abolished in 2018 but was reinstated by a lower court in June this year.
The reinstation of the quota system has escalated into calls for Prime Minister Hasina to resign, and violent demonstrations and clashes have spread nationwide, which resulted in over 200 deaths.
Meanwhile, Hasina is currently in India, as announced by Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.
The Indian Foreign Minister said Hasina, on very short notice, requested approval to visit India.
He added that they simultaneously received a request for flight clearance from the Bangladesh authorities and that she arrived in Delhi the previous evening.
“At very short notice, she [PM Sheikh Hasina] requested approval to come for the moment to India. We simultaneously received a request for flight clearance from the Bangladesh authorities. She arrived yesterday evening in Delhi,” S. Jaishankar, Indian Foreign Minister said.
