Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned from her post and the Army flight she is traveling is seen in Indian airspace. She is reportedly landing in Delhi at 5 pm. The Army Chief held a press conference and confirmed her resignation. He said that an interim government will be formed to run the country and the country’s economy has suffered massively due to violent protests.
She departed from Bangabhaban at around 2:30 pm on Monday on a military helicopter, accompanied by her younger sister, Sheikh Rehana for a ‘safer place.’, ANI reported. She has entered Indian airspace and the flight is above Hazaribagh right now, the flightradar 24 data showed. There are chances that she could land in Delhi at 5 pm after the flight was denied permission to land in Kolkata.
Meanwhile, India has canceled all its train services to and fro from Bangladesh.
‘I am taking full responsibility,’ the general said, dressed in military fatigues and cap, though it was not immediately clear if he would lead a caretaker government. ‘We will form an interim government,’ Bangladesh Army chief General Waker-uz-Zaman said in a broadcast on state television, adding that Sheikh Hasina had resigned.
