Just forty-five minutes after Bangladesh’s besieged prime ministerial incumbent Sheikh Hasina Wajed stepped down from the office and subsequently exiled the country on Monday, the country’s Army chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman assumed the power and declared for the interim rulers.
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In a television address, the general confirmed Hasina’s resignation and consequently took the responsibility of the government up on himself.
First, he stated that he owns the responsibility: “The country has suffered a lot; the economy has been hit, many people have been killed; it’s time for the violence to stop.” Subsequently, he said, ‘I hope following my speech I will see some change’.
Wearing a military fatigue and cap, he declared, “We shall form an interim government.”
He said that he would consult with the president to form the interim government and had met with the main oppositionists and civil society members except the Awami League headed by Hasina.
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He has also urged the army personnel to safeguard people’s lives, their properties, and significant state facilities.
Hasina, 76, vacated the Prime Minister’s official residence, ‘Ganobhaban,’ as protests intensified, saying she resigned on Monday. It is said that Hasina disembarked at India’s Hindon airbase station near the capital Delhi, and she is to be shifted to a secluded place in Delhi for the time being. She is expected to leave for London. He anticipated that she was to leave for London.
The embattle of Bangladesh has been filled with enormous protest and violence since last month regarding the quota system, which is still in debate and supposedly provides 30% of the government jobs to the families of the freedom fighters of 1971’s liberation war.
