- Adviser to caretaker govt urges protesters to stay peaceable
- Central financial institution Governor Abdur Rouf’s resignation “not accepted”.
- 4 deputy governors compelled to resign following protests days earlier.
Bangladesh’s chief justice and central financial institution governor have resigned, officers stated on Saturday, as pupil protests that compelled Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee have widened to focus on extra officers appointed throughout her time in workplace.
Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan resigned, the legislation ministry’s adviser Asif Nazrul stated in a Fb video publish, after college students warned him of “dire penalties” if he didn’t. Reuters couldn’t instantly contact Hassan.
Nazrul, an adviser within the new caretaker authorities, urged protesters to stay peaceable. “Do not injury any public property,” he stated within the publish.
Bangladesh Financial institution Governor Abdur Rouf Talukder has additionally resigned however his resignation has not been accepted given the significance of the place, finance ministry adviser Salehuddin Ahmed informed reporters. Reuters couldn’t contact Talukder.
Days earlier, 4 deputy governors have been compelled to resign after about 300 to 400 financial institution officers protested towards what they stated was corruption by high officers.
The vice chancellor of Dhaka College, ASM Maksud Kamal, has additionally resigned, the college stated. Reuters was unable to contact Kamal.
The college has been the epicentre of lethal protests that escalated in July towards quotas in authorities jobs earlier than morphing into an oust-Hasina marketing campaign.
Hasina has been sheltering in New Delhi since Monday following the rebellion that killed about 300 individuals, a lot of them college students, ending her uninterrupted rule of 15 years within the South Asian nation of 170 million individuals.
Since her departure, the nation has additionally seen the appointment of a brand new police chief as a part of a shake-up of the safety high brass that additionally included a brand new head of the technical intelligence monitoring company and modifications amongst senior military officers.
