BREAKING: BANGLADESH PRESIDENT DISSOLVES PARLIAMENT
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In response to student protestors who spearheaded the marches that toppled longstanding ruler Sheikh Hasina, the president of Bangladesh dismissed parliament on Tuesday, according to a statement.
“The president has dissolved parliament,” Shiplu Zaman, press secretary of President Mohammed Shahabuddin, said in a statement.
The announcement added that former prime minister and Hasina’s fiercest opponent, Begum Khaleda Zia, the head of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), had been released from house imprisonment.
If parliament were not dissolved, student protestors would have threatened to hold additional demonstrations. According to the presidential statement, the decision was made after discussions with the heads of the armed services, political party leaders, student leaders, and some representatives of civil society.
With her Monday departure, Hasina’s 15-year second term in office came to an end. Having inherited the political movement of her father, state founder Mujubur Rahman, who was slain in 1975, she had dominated the nation for 20 of the previous 30 years.
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