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Bangladesh : Protesters in Bangladesh have surrounded the Presidential Palace Banga Bhawan demanding the resignation of President Mohammad Shahabuddin. Earlier on Tuesday afternoon, the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, a group leading the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, announced 5-point demands including the resignation of the President in a rally in the middle of Shaheed Minar in Dhaka. Later in the night, they moved towards Banga Bhawan. The army stopped them by putting up barricades. According to information, the protesters tried to remove the police barricades, to stop and the police had to resort to the lathi charge. Seeing the crowd gathered for the protest becoming violent, the police also fired tear gas shells.

Protesters demanded the abolition of the Constitution.

Meanwhile, protesters staged a sit-in outside Banga Bhaban and started raising slogans demanding the resignation of the Bangladesh President. A protester said that the President is an accomplice of Hasina's authoritarian government. He should resign immediately. Mohammad Shahabuddin, originally known as Chuppu, is the 16th President of Bangladesh. The Anti-Discrimination Student Movement has demanded that the constitution written in 1972 should be abolished and called for the writing of a new constitution concerning 2024.

The students have demanded a ban on the Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of the Awami League. They have demanded the resignation of Mohammad Shahabuddin. They have said that the elections to be held in 2024, 2018 and 2024 under the leadership of Sheikh Hasina should be declared illegal and the members of parliament who won in these elections should be disqualified. They have demanded the declaration of a republic in keeping with the spirit of the July-August uprising. In July, Bangladesh witnessed massive student-led protests demanding an end to the quota system for government jobs. In the wake of growing protests, Sheikh Hasina tendered her resignation as Bangladesh PM on August 5. 76-year-old Hasina fled to India on August 5 and an interim government was formed under the leadership of Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus. On August 8, Nobel laureate economist Mohammad Yunus was sworn in as the head of Bangladesh's interim government.

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