By Vineet Dikshit

NewsGate Press Network

Riding piggyback on wide spread student unrest in Bangladesh, army took over Dhaka on Monday the 5th of August 2024 as beleaguered prime minister Sheikh made a hasty exit.

Sheikh Hasina’s aircraft, a Bangladesh Air Force C-130 Hercules military  transport has made a stopover at Indian Air Force Base at Hindon just outside Delhi on way to London.

Reports late on Monday night suggests that she is being provided a political asylum in England.

Soon after her aircraft had landed on in Hindon on Monday evening, the National Security Advisor Ajit Doval met her.

Around same time External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar briefed Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Parliament House office.

EAM Jaishankar may make a statement on turmoil in Bangladesh in Parliament on Tuesday.

It was also reported that both Air India and Indigo have suspended their flights to Dhaka with immediate effect.

News agency UNI was reporting on its website that – the violence-hit nation’s Army chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman, to whom the 76-year-old PM submitted her resignation, addressed the nation and has announced the formation of interim government and ruled declaration of a state of emergency in the c.

Hasina, took office for her fourth straight five-year term as the country’s Prime Minister in January earlier this year after her ruling Bangladesh Awami League (AL) party won a landslide victory in the parliamentary elections.

Over 300 people have died in the unrest, making this one of the deadliest periods of civil unrest in Bangladesh’s history, said media reports.

The quota unrest began in June 2024 when the High Court reinstated a 30 per cent quota for the descendants of freedom fighters from the 1971 war of independence, reversing a 2018 decision that had abolished such quotas.

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) issued a general advisory stating that  – In view of ongoing developments, Indian nationals are strongly advised against travelling to Bangladesh till further notice.

All Indian nationals presently in Bangladesh are advised to exercise extreme caution, restrict their movements and remain in contact with the High Commission of India in Dhaka through their emergency phone numbers :

+8801958383679
+8801958383680
+8801937400591

The Border Security Force (BSF) has been put on high alert all along 4,096 km long border with Bangladesh.

Authorities in state of Meghalaya has imposed curfew along its international border with Bangladesh.

Tripura which is surrounded on three sides by Bangladesh is on a very high alert.