Guwahati: Meghalaya has imposed night curfew along the India-Bangladesh border from 6 pm to 6 am. The state government had a crucial meeting on Monday following the situation in Bangladesh.
Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong said the night curfew will begin from tonight until further orders. A meeting was convened here which was attended by Chief Secretary Donald Phillips Wahlang and Director General of Police Iadashisha Nongrang and officials of the state.
Meghalaya shares a 445-km border with Bangladesh. Tynsong said a night curfew will cover those areas 200 meters from the zero line to prevent movement of persons. He said the Border Security Force (BSF) with nine battalions will maintain vigil along the border.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned and reportedly left for an “undisclosed location”.
On Monday, a section of the crowd in Dhaka vandalised a statue of former Bangladesh President and the country’s Independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the father of Sheikh Hasina.
Bangladesh Army Chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman announced that Sheikh Hasina has resigned as the Prime Minister, and an interim government will be formed soon to run the country. Over 100 people were killed and more than 1,000 injured in the clashes that took place between police and protesters on Sunday.Recently hundreds of students studying in Bangladesh have come back to India through the borders of Meghalaya and Agartala.The students had been protesting a 30 per cent reservation in government jobs for relatives of freedom fighters who wrested independence for Bangladesh from Pakistan in a bloody civil war in 1971 in which, according to Dhaka officials, 3 million people were killed in the genocide by Pakistani troops and their supporters.
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