GUWAHATI, Oct 23: Hundreds of protesters attempted to storm the presidential palace in Dhaka and demanded the resignation of President Mohammed Shahabuddin over his comments on deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Protests erupted after President Shahabuddin last week told a local newspaper that he did not have any evidence of Sheikh Hasina’s resignation and had only heard about it.
Sheikh Hasina, it may be mentioned here, had resigned following the violent protests that rocked the country and fled to India.
Bangladeshi media reported that the protests began on Tuesday evening as protesters marched towards the Presidential palace Bangabhaban. Police resorted to firing stun grenades as the crowd began to swell.
The protesters, however, began marching ahead and clashed with police.
Student leaders Hasnat Abdullah and Sarjis Alam, who had spearheaded the campaign to oust Sheikh Hasina, arrived at the protest site and requested the demonstrators to leave.
The protests subsided following their assurance of looking into the demands of the protesters which also included one to name a new President by Thursday.
