New Delhi: The Border Security Force (BSF) on Monday, August 5, issued a high alert along the India-Bangladesh border amid unrest in India’s neighbouring country over the anti-quota protest.
DG BSF Daljit Singh Chawdhary is currently present at the Indo-Bangladesh Border in Kolkata. The DG is holding a security assessment meeting with officials of the prevailing situation.
He is presently being briefed at 118 Battalion headquarters.
Singh is expected to stay in Kolkata for another 24 hours, as per sources.
PM Hasina Resigns
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned on Monday, ending 15 years in power, following the unrest in the South Asian country. The Bangladesh PM landed in Agartala later in the evening.
The Bangladesh leader left the country in a military helicopter with her sister, Bangladesh’s military chief Gen. Waker-uz-Zaman announced plans to seek the president’s guidance on forming an interim government.
He promised that the military would stand down, and to launch an investigation into the deadly crackdowns that fueled outrage against the government, and asked citizens for time to restore peace.
“Keep faith in the military, we will investigate all the killings and punish the responsible,” he said. “I have ordered that no army and police will indulge in any kind of firing.”
“Now, the students’ duty is to stay calm and help us,” he added.
The protests began peacefully in late June, as students sought an end to a quota system for government jobs, but turned violent after clashes between protesters and police and pro-government activists at Dhaka University.
In fresh unrest, nearly 100 people were killed as the protesters clashed with security officials and the ruling party activists across the country.
(Inputs from AP)
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