Bangladesh: According to the report of Aljazeera, people took out a 13-kilometer-long march in Dhaka. There these people reached the rally called by the opposition and demanded Hasina’s resignation.
Rallies were taken out at 16 places including Dhaka. During this violence, a worker of the opposition party was killed, while hundreds of people were injured. According to local media, Bangladesh’s main opposition party Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) organized these rallies to demand re-election.
The opposition in Bangladesh has long accused the ruling party (Bangladesh Awami League) of corruption and human rights abuses. BNP general secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir called on Sheikh Hasina to step down immediately, dissolve parliament, and hand over power to an interim caretaker government to help restore democracy in the country.
Aljazeera quoted news agency AFP as saying that violence took place at 16 places including Dhaka during the rally. Meanwhile, BNP spokesperson Zaheer Uddin Swapan said that a worker of the ruling party’s student wing shot Sajib Hussain of our party, killing him.
General elections in Bangladesh will be held in January 2024. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed has announced this. Hasina has been the Prime Minister of Bangladesh since 2009 and is a contender for the post of PM for the fifth consecutive time.
Hasina has accused the main opposition party BNP that its leaders are sending the country’s money to other countries through money laundering and the biggest name in this is Tariq Rahman, son of BNP leader and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia.