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BANGLADESH IN CRISIS

A COUP IN

DHAKA?

Bangladesh’s prime minister was forced to quit and flee to India. As foreign powers

play their games in India’s neighboring country, New Delhi will have to do a fine
balancing act. Can the Modi government deal with the new regime in Dhaka?

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Dhaka/New Delhi/Washington, DC

fter what happened in Sri
Lanka last year, similar scenes
Awere scene in the capital of
Bangladesh where the streets erupt-
ed in anger against the government.
Forced to leave their country, Bangla-
desh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
and her associates had to rush to save
themselves and most of the members
who arrived in India with her did not
even get time to carry along essentials
with them on way to India.
Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh
Rehana and other associates arrived
in India on Monday in a C-130 J
transport aircraft from Dhaka. All
the team members in her entourage
came to India in a hurry as many of
them could not even carry clothing or
any other daily use items with them,
according to sources.
The Indian protocol officials
deployed with the entourage helped
the members of Hasina’s team to buy
clothes and other items, they said.
The team members were in a
state of shock due to the experience
and scenes witnessed by them back
home in the last few days, the sourc- Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina exchange greetings during the ceremonial reception, at the forecourt of
es said. The number of associates of Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on June 22 (ANI File Photo)
the two sisters from the most reputed
political family of Bangladesh are in hi, they said. protests. sor. Yunus was sworn in as the head
double digits and they arrived in In- Bangladesh is facing a fluid polit- On Thursday, seventeen mem- of Bangladesh’s interim government
dia along with her, the sources said. ical situation with Sheikh Hasina, on bers of Bangladesh’s interim gov- on Thursday night, three days after
Indian National Security Ad- August 5, tendering her resignation ernment took their oaths at a cer- Sheikh Hasina resigned from the po-
visor Ajit Doval was constantly in from her post in the wake of mount- emony in Dhaka on Thursday, sition of Prime Minister and left the
touch with the officials and met Ha- ing protests. The protests, led major- Bangladesh-based daily, Dhaka Tri- country amid widespread unrest.
sina as soon as she landed in Delhi. ly by students demanding an end to bune reported. Nobel laureate econ- Bangladesh’s figurehead Pres-
The team was provided immediate a quota system for government jobs, omist Muhammad Yunus, 84, was ident Mohammed Shahabuddin
help and taken to safe houses in Del- took the shape of anti-government sworn in as the country’s chief advi- Continued on next page... >>

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