Bangladesh is going through a major political crunch following the threat of boycotting the popular elections by the 19-party alliance lead by Sheikh Hasina.
The elections are scheduled to be happened on Jan 22. The situation is going worse as because of mounting pressure, President Iajuddin Ahmed decided to quit his post. He was the head of Bangladesh’s interim government until yet. Before the resignation for the post, he declared a state of emergency in the country.
Earlier, violence loomed the country following the decision by the alliance led by Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina to stay away from the elections.
The alliance was demanding for the removal of Ahmed as head of the interim government to ensure free and fair polls.
Since last November, the alliance had lodged major protest on the streets and fought with security personnel.
Later, the president had imposed night curfew in the country to restrict the violence but it failed to do so.
There was an International pressure coming as the UN and EU had suspended monitoring duties of their observers of the elections. They said that legitimacy of the polls had been jeopardized.
India said on the current situation in the neighboring country that
it hoped people of Bangladesh would be allowed to exercise their democratic rights to choose their own government in a free and fair process through credible elections in which major political parties are in a position to participate.
In the recent development, all the nine other advisors of the interim government also resigned from their posts.
Following this, the senior most advisor, Justice Mohammad Fazlul Haque, has so far taken charge as the acting chief advisor in the country.
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