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Bangladesh Crisis: A Challenege for India?

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  Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh resigned from office as a result of the nation's violent protests. On Monday night, a crowd broke into the prime minister's residence, forcing Hasina to leave the nation in a helicopter. As the Bangladesh Army made sure that a temporary administration would soon take control, demonstrators were observed rejoicing over the PM's resignation. Bangladesh is not unfamiliar with military meddling; it has seen it happen before. Hasina's father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was assassinated in 1975 in a military coup that established a protracted military regime, along with the majority of his family members. Rebels storming into a government guest home in Chittagong city, where Ziaur Rahman was staying, killed him in 1981. Hussein Muhammad Ershad, who took over as chief martial law administrator and eventually became president, staged a bloodless military revolution in 1982 that toppled Rahman's successor, Abdus Sattar. A military co...