Bangladesh’s ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s coalition, Jatiya Occasion, central workplace in Dhaka, has been set on hearth following clashes on Thursday night time. In response to witnesses, the workplace was partly broken.
The Jatiya Occasion was based by the late President Hussain Muhammad Ershad. It was part of the Bangladesh Awami League-led Grand Alliance and took part within the earlier three common elections regardless of main occasion BNP boycotts. The individuals protesting in opposition to Sheikh Hasina have been left fuming in anger after the Jatiya Occasion introduced that it could maintain a rally in Dhaka on Saturday.
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Clashes erupted when protesters carrying the Chhatra Sramik Janata banner marched with a torch procession in entrance of the Jatiya Occasion’s central workplace within the Kakrail space, the center of the capital Dhaka.
The fireplace service went to the spot and extinguished the hearth. When numerous protestors went in entrance of the Jatiya Occasion left the workplace. Protesters vandalized Jatiya Occasion workplaces, pulled down signboards, and smeared ink on occasion founder Ershad’s image on the wall, the witnesses mentioned.
Police and Military have been deployed in entrance of the Jatiya Occasion workplace. “We have been passing in entrance of the Jatiya Occasion workplace with a torch procession. At the moment, terrorists of the Jatiya Occasion threw bricks at our procession from the roof of the Jatiya Occasion workplace,” mentioned Shakiluzzaman, a frontrunner of Gono Audhikar Parishad, a political occasion that actively participated within the motion in opposition to Sheikh Hasina.
“Jatiya Occasion terrorists themselves set hearth to their workplace and escaped. Jatya Occasion acted as a proxy of the fascist Awami League within the 2014, 2018 and 2024 elections,” Shakiluzzaman mentioned. “We, the scholars, staff, and residents, have declared that we are going to not permit Jatiya Occasion to carry any rally,” he additional said. The Jatiya Occasion didn’t make any instant statements, however they’re more likely to categorical their response formally in a while Friday.
Two months in the past, a student-led motion ousted Bangladesh’s Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, after weeks of protests and clashes that killed over 600. Hasina, 76, fled to India on August 5, and an interim authorities led by Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus was fashioned.
(With ANI Inputs)
