Last Updated on 07/08/2024 by wccexam Desk
Bangladesh Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, appointed by Sheikh Hasina, was sacked late on Tuesday night. The Ministry of Public Administration announced on Tuesday that Traffic and Driving School Commandant Mohammad Mainul Islam will be the new Inspector General of Police, The Daily Star reported. Sacked IGP Al-Mamun was on contract. He had already completed his retirement age two years ago and was given an extension by the previous government.
The Ministry of Public Administration cancelled his contract through a notification. Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun got a second extension as police chief recently on July 5. Al-Mamun was removed from his post after law and order collapsed across Bangladesh. Chowdhury was appointed as the Inspector General of Bangladesh Police on September 21, 2022. The new IGP, 58-year-old Mohammad Mainul, started his police career in January 1991.
He has also served in the Rapid Action Battalion, the elite force of Bangladesh Police. The new police chief will have a tenure of one year as IGP if he retires at the age of 59. Mainul, the driving school chief, has been promoted to the top post bypassing several other additional IGPs holding key positions in the Bangladesh Police. But he is certainly senior to most of them in the civil service cadre.
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Process of formation of interim government going on in Bangladesh
A day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and left the country amid deadly protests against her government over the controversial job quota system, the three service chiefs and student union representatives met with President Shahabuddin to discuss the formation of an interim government. Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has been appointed head of the interim government, the Bangladeshi president’s press secretary said in a statement late Tuesday. Yunus’ name was proposed by student unions protesting against the quota system and the Hasina government, which was accepted by the president.
Job quota system became the reason for the downfall of Hasina government
Let us tell you that there was a provision of 30 percent reservation in government jobs for the descendants of freedom fighters who fought in the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, against which the students’ movement started. It turned violent when, on the instructions of the Sheikh Hasina government, the police and paramilitary forces used force against the protesting students. However, in a historic decision, the Supreme Court completely changed the quota system of Bangladesh and made 93 percent of the recruitments on the basis of merit and limited the scope of reservation to only 7 percent.
Hasina was forced to flee Bangladesh, is currently in India
Despite this decision, the anger of the protesting students did not subside and they took to the streets. Their protest demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina took a violent turn, in which more than 100 people lost their lives on August 4. The furious mob attacked the Prime Minister’s official residence ‘Ganabhaban’ in the capital Dhaka and looted it. Sensing the situation, the Bangladesh Army Chief had already given an ultimatum to Sheikh Hasina to resign and asked her to leave the country within 45 minutes. Hasina left Bangladesh on the evening of August 5 and is currently in India.
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)