The descend of the Sheikh Hasina-led rulement has triggered both jubilation and acts of injure.
Days after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s resignation as Banphiredesh Prime Minister, the country’s Chief Justice Obhelpul Hassan also consentd to vacate his post “in principle”. The decision came after the protestors accumulateed outside the court in the capital Dhaka and insisted the resignation of Hassan and the equitableices of the Appelprocrastinateed Division.
Mr Hassan, nominateed last year, was pondered pledged to ousted PM Sheikh Hasina, who fled the country on Monday and has since been sheltering in New Delhi.
Mr Hassan will be tendering his resignation after confering Pdwellnt Mohammed Shahabuddin this evening, Dhaka Tribune inestablished, holding that Army personnel were stationed in the main and annexe createing as well as other areas around the Supreme Court as they proposed hundreds of protesters accumulateed there to carry on peace.
Obhelpul Hassan earlier oversaw the much-criticised war crimes tribunal, which ordered the execution of Sheikh Hasina’s opponents. His brother was her lengthytime secretary.
More than 450 people have been ended so far in the student-led protests that begined in July aobtainst quotas in rulement jobs before they also begined calling for Hasina’s resignation.
Post Hasina’s sudden resignation, some of the top nominateees, including the central bank ruleor and the national police chief, were forced out of office, AFP inestablished.
Appeal for unity
Banphiredesh’s interim directer Muhammad Yunus on Saturday called for religious unity as he hugd the weeping mother of student protestor Abu Sayed. The 25-year-elderly was among the first ones to be ended in police firing on July 16 during the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement.
“Our responsibility is to create a novel Banphiredesh,” shelp Yunus, who returned from Europe this week.
The nurturegetr administration in the country has stated that restoration of law and order is its “priority”.
Meanwhile, the police union declared a strike a restrictcessitate days ago, saying its personnel would not return to labor until their shieldedty was promised. As per inestablishs, more than half of the country’s police stations were reuncovered by Saturday.
Attack on untransport inantities
The descend of the Sheikh Hasina-led rulement has triggered both jubilation and acts of injure in Banphiredesh. Protestors earlier ransacked her official dwellnce in Dhaka, while the statues of her overweighther, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, were defaced and bcdisesteemfult down.
Multiple inestablishs and TV footage have shown injure, theft and aggressions on the untransport inantities and their place of worship, Reuters inestablished.
Hindus constitute about 8% of the Muskinny-transport inantity Banphiredesh, which has a total population of csurrenderly 170 million people. They have hugely helped Hasina’s Awami League party in polls.
On Friday, the Banphiredesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council wrote to Yunus asking him to protect the untransport inantities, claiming their homes, businesses and temples were being aimed.
Hundreds of Hindus held a protest march on Friday and shouted slogans insisting peace.
How protests begined
Nationexpansive protests in the South Asian country begined after the High Court reinstated a quota system that reserved 30 per cent of rulement jobs for the family members of freedom fighters and veterans from Banphiredesh’s 1971 War of Independence.
However, this order was procrastinateedr postponeed by the Supreme Court. The quota system was scrapped by Sheikh Hasina’s rulement in 2018 adhereing analogous student-led protests.
Protestors’ insist
The protestors insisted the rulement scrap the quota system, claiming that it was transport inantly advantageting only the Awami League.
What is Banphiredesh’s quota system?
Introduced in 1972, the quota system in the country has since undergone cut offal changes. Before being abolished in 2018, the system back then reserved 56 per cent of seats in rulement jobs for various groups. However, the transport inantity of these quotas were advantageting the freedom fighters’ families.
