Former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina Expected To Land In Delhi At 5 PM Amid Political Turmoil: Reports

Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's flight is expected to arrive in Delhi around 5 pm. The aircraft is currently in Indian airspace. Earlier today, Sheikh Hasina resigned from her position as Bangladesh's Prime Minister and departed from Dhaka.

In January 2024 (total 300 seats)

-Shaikh Haseena won : 224
-Main Opposition won : 11
-Independent won : 62

Shaikh Haseena had to resign today and Bangladesh Army Chief announced that the new govt will take over.

The real murder of democracy!pic.twitter.com/vDJwxs4ffm

— Mr Sinha (@MrSinha_) August 5, 2024

According to the media reports, her plane, an Air Force C-130, passed Gaya and was approaching Varanasi at 4:15 pm. Reports indicate that Hasina might be heading to Delhi or continuing to the UK via India.

Sheikh Hasina and her sister fleeing in an Army helicopter. The deed is done. Student-people uprising has overthrown the regime. All power to the working people through the struggle committees. Maintain general strike. No trust in Army/political parties. pic.twitter.com/fg54m7rNxA

— Jorge Martin ☭ (@marxistJorge) August 5, 2024

Facing mass protests for days, Hasina left Dhaka on August 5. She first flew to Kurmiltola by helicopter and then possibly took an aircraft. The BSF has issued a high alert, and the Director General has arrived in Kolkata.

Bangladesh Army Chief Waker-uz-Zaman announced that an interim government will be formed in Bangladesh. "PM Hasina has resigned; an interim government will run the country. We will restore peace. We ask citizens to stop the violence. We will investigate all the killings over the past few weeks," Waker-uz-Zaman said in his address to the nation.

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On Monday, protesters stormed Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's palace after she fled, marking the peak of over a month of deadly anti-government protests.

Jubilant crowds waved flags, with some dancing on top of a tank in the streets of Dhaka on Monday morning, before hundreds broke through the gates of Hasina's official residence.

Protesters in Dhaka also climbed atop a large statue of independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Hasina's father, and began chiselling away at the head with an axe, as shown in the visuals.

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