Bangladesh is in a mess just after the forced resignation of Sheikh Hasina last night, where the job quota has fueled more than 400 people’s deaths in protest.
New Delhi:
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had sought permission to come to India at’very short notice’ after she was forced to resign, Indian Foreign Affairs Minister S Jaishanker said on Tuesday.
Subsequently briefing Parliament about the’still unfolding’ situation in Bangladesh, India’s response, and about 19,000 Indians living in that country, Mr. Jaishankar stated that the government is ‘in touch with the Indian community almost on a running basis’ and requested the host government for’security as may be required’.
Speaking to the media before the briefing, he said he told the leaders at the all-party meet held this morning and Prime Minister Narendra Modi last night.
We understand that after she met with the commanders of protests’ security guards on August 5, demonstrators gathered in Dhaka despite the curfew.
On that day, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina decided to resign after that. Our authorities received her request to provide the flight clearance at very short notice. She landed in Delhi the previous evening.
He also quoted Bangladesh Army chief General Waker-uz-Zaman, who, in an address on Monday evening, immediately after Mrs. Hasina came out of the room, had said that he had met opposition leaders. They have agreed for an interim government. The violent protests must stop.
