Bangladesh Protests LIVE Updates: Protests continue in Bangladesh
Dhaka:
Protests refuse to die down in Bangladesh. The country’s Chief Justice, seen as a loyalist of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, was forced to resign this afternoon after an ultimatum from protesting students. An interim government is already in place in Bangladesh where clashes during a quota protest claimed at least 400 lives earlier this week and forced Ms Hasina to resign and flee the country.
Here are the LIVE Updates on Bangladesh Unrest:
In the wake of unrest in Bangladesh, the lone Integrated Check Post (ICP) in Assam’s Karimganj District with the neighbouring country has been closed and trade has been suspended, officials said on Saturday.
Mridul Yadav, the District Commissioner of Karimganj, told IANS, “The Integrated Check Post (ICP) is situated in Sutarkandi area, 15 kms from the district headquarters. It was shut down five days ago, and all export-import temporarily halted. We have received orders only to allow Indian passport holders to cross over and come to India.”
The official said that after the unrest broke out in Bangladesh, at least 60 students left the neighbouring country and returned to India through Karimganj District’s Sutarkandi point.
According to Yadav, security measures have been heightened along the Bangladesh border in the district.
Karimganj shares a 93-km-long boundary with Bangladesh, and the district headquarters are separated from Bangladesh by the Kushiyara River.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said that there was some uncertainty in India’s textiles and garments sector following the political turmoil in Bangladesh but it was too early to say what the overall impact on the economy would be.
She said that Indian businessmen have made investments in Bangladesh in good faith and these resulted in increasing exports and creating more jobs in Bangladesh.
“I hope these investments which have benefited Bangladesh remain safe,” she remarked.
India has a policy of allowing liberal imports from low-income countries and this has also helped to spur growth in the Bangladesh economy, she added.
Bangladesh’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus has appealed for religious unity after embracing the weeping mother of a student shot dead by police. Nobel laureate Yunus, 84, told reporters, “Our responsibility is to build a new Bangladesh.” He called for calm during a visit to the northern city of Rangpur by invoking the memory of Abu Sayeed, the first student killed during last month’s unrest. “Don’t differentiate by religion”, he said.
Several reprisal attacks against the country’s Hindu minority since autocratic ex-premier Hasina’s toppling have caused alarm.
Protests Outside Bangladesh Embassy In Guwahati Over Alleged Attack On Minorities
A right-wing group today held demonstrations outside the Assistant High Commission of Bangladesh in Guwahati against the alleged attack on minorities, particularly Hindus, after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government. They submitted an eight-point charter demanding the caretaker government in Bangladesh to take steps to immediately stop the attack on minorities in the wake of hundreds of people from the minority communities flocking to the border in North Bengal.
Why Bangladesh Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan Was Forced To QuitThe Chief Justice of Bangladesh, Obaidul Hassan, resigned today following massive protests by students who surrounded the Supreme Court. Mr Hassan agreed to resign “in principle” after an ultimatum to do so from protesters. He was appointed to helm the Supreme Court last year and is seen as a loyalist to ousted premier Sheikh Hasina.
Obaidul Hassan, the chief justice of Bangladesh’s Supreme Court, has resigned after an ultimatum to do so from protesters. He was appointed to helm the Supreme Court last year and is seen as a loyalist to ousted premier Sheikh Hasina. Earlier in the day, he was told to step down by protesters who gathered outside the court in the capital Dhaka.
