Kolkata | August 6: On the purported reports of Sheikh Hasina being in India, BJP’s General Secretary of West Bengal unit, Locket Chatterjee on Monday said that even Sheikh Hasina believes that India is a safe country under the leadership of PM Modi, that’s why she came to India.
Speaking with media outlet, Locket Chatterjee said, “This is a saddening event and many students have lost their lives in the protests in Bangladesh. Today, through the media reports, I also learned that Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina has fled to India. If it is so, then only because even she believes that our country is safe under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi.”
On the ongoing protests in Bangladesh, Chatterjee said, “It’s Bangladesh’s internal matter. But it shares cultural and linguistic ties with our state West Bengal. We have a lot of similarities and ties with Bangladesh. Even people from India and Bangladesh go to each other’s countries. We hope that normalcy will return to Bangladesh as soon as possible. Our Prime Minister will definitely interfere in this matter if needed.”
Protests and incidents of vandalism were reported from the streets of Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Monday, a day when Shiekh Hasina tendered her resignation and left the country amidst weeks of student-led protests that escalated into violence.
Visuals aired on TV, local media and social media platforms showed people ransacking Sheikh Hasina’s official residence and taking away eatables.
People were also seen storming into the parliament building and decamping with things.
Shortly after the 76-year-old leader, accompanied by her sister left the country in a military helicopter Bangladesh’s military chief General. Waker-uz-Zaman urged protestors to shun violence. The army chief announced that an interim government will soon be formed.
The protests majorly by students demanded an end to a quota system for government jobs and had grown into an uprising against Hasina and her ruling Awami League party. At least 95 people, including at least 14 police officers, died and hundreds of people were injured in clashes in Dhaka on Sunday, local media outlet Prothom Alo reported.
The country’s leading Bengali-language daily newspaper, Prothom Alo, said that protesters also set fire to Sudha Sadan, the unofficial residence of Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi.”Today around 5:30 pm, Sudha Sadan was vandalized. A fire was also set inside the house. Taking things out of the house and leaving,” the Bangladesh daily said.
Prothom Alo also reported that the residence of Chief Justice of the country was also vandalized. Several people were seen entering the Chief Justice’s residence located on 19 Hair Road by climbing over the wall.
Screams could be heard from inside and reports of vandalism were also coming in, the media outlet reported.
Meanwhile, protests and celebrations were reported from other parts of Dhaka with some protestors cheering the news of the resignation of Sheikh Hasina.
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