The Cupboard Committee on Safety met at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s official residence this night amid the turmoil in neighbouring Bangladesh – the place its Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the nation amid massive protests over job quotas.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Dwelling Minister Amit Shah, Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had been current within the assembly.
Individually, PM Modi was additionally briefed on the scenario in Bangladesh by S Jaishankar. Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, who’s the Chief of the Opposition within the Lok Sabha, has additionally spoken to Mr Jaishankar.
Ms Hasina, who first got here to energy in 2009, had sought to quell nationwide protests in opposition to her authorities since early July however she fled the nation after brutal unrest on Sunday by which practically 100 folks had been killed.
Bangladesh’s military chief Normal Waker-Uz-Zaman mentioned in a broadcast to the nation on state tv that Ms Hasina, 76, had resigned and the navy would kind a caretaker authorities.
Sheikh Hasina’s airplane – a Bangladesh Air Power C-130 navy transport – landed at an airbase close to Delhi on Monday night. Nationwide Safety Adviser Ajit Doval known as on the previous prime minister.
She is expected to leave for London later, sources advised NDTV, the place she might search political asylum.
Ms Hasina, who received a fifth time period as prime minister in January, might not return to politics, her US-based son and former Chief Advisor Sajeeb Wajed Joy has told BBC‘s World Service’s Newshour program.
Upset by the sturdy public sentiment in opposition to her authorities regardless of her efforts to rework the nation, she has determined to give up, he advised BBC.
Demonstrations started over the reintroduction of a quota scheme that reserved greater than half of all authorities jobs for sure teams.
The protests escalated regardless of the scheme being scaled again by Bangladesh’s prime court docket.
At the very least 94 folks had been killed on Sunday, the deadliest day of the unrest, with protesters and authorities supporters battling one another with sticks and knives, and safety forces opening fireplace.
The most recent violence took the entire variety of folks killed since protests started in early July to at the least 356, based on information company AFP depend based mostly on police, authorities officers and medical doctors at hospitals.
Bangladesh has an extended historical past of coups.
The navy declared an emergency in January 2007 after widespread political unrest and put in a military-backed caretaker authorities for 2 years.
