In Bangladesh, amid calls for the removal of President Mohammed Shahabuddin for his alleged remark over the resignation of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Salahuddin Ahmed today said the party does not want to see the post of president vacant in the current situation. Talking with the media in Dhaka, he said a vacancy in the president’s post would create a state and constitutional crisis at this moment, which the nation does not expect.

Earlier, a student movement coordinator and an adviser to the Interim Government of Bangladesh, Nahid Islam, said that a decision regarding President Mohammed Shahabuddin can be reached through political discussion and national unity rather than following legal or constitutional means.

Yesterday, there was a student-led demonstration in front of the Bangbhavan, an Official residence of Bangladesh’s President, demanding his resignation, in which few people got injured when law enforcers tried to prevent people rushing towards the barricades. Following the incident, security around the Bangbhavan has been beefed up, and apart from police, army personnel have been deployed in armed positions around the area.

The President Mohammed Shahabuddin was elected unopposed on 13 February 2023. He took office for a five-year term on 24 April 2023.