The son of Bangladesh`s recently resigned Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday urged the country`s security forces to block any takeover from her rule as hundreds of thousands of protesters demanded she quit.
"Your duty is to keep our people safe and our country safe and to uphold the constitution," US-based Sajeeb Wazed Joy said in a post on Facebook, reports AFP.
"It means don`t allow any unelected government to come in power for one minute, it is your duty."
Joy, who is also an information and communications technology advisor to Hasina, warned progress made by Bangladesh would be threatened if she were forced out.
"Everything of our development and progress will vanish. Bangladesh would not be able to come back from there," he said.
I don`t want that and you also do not want that," he added. "Myself, Sajeeb Wazed Joy, will not let that happen as long as I can."
His came up with this as Bangladesh`s army chief Waker-Uz-Zaman is set to address the nation, a military spokesman told AFP without giving further details.
Later, Sheikh Hasina and her younger sister Sheikh Rehana left the country via a military chopper around 2:30pm as she resigned.
Around 3:55pm, Army Chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman told the media, "Honorable Prime Minister resigned."
He said: “After holding a fruitful discussion with all political parties, we have decided to form an interim government."
Rallies that began last month against civil service job quotas have escalated into some of the worst unrest of Sheikh Hasina`s 16-year rule and shifted into wider calls for the 76-year-old to resign.
The military declared an emergency in January 2007 after widespread political unrest and installed a caretaker government for two years and later Sheikh Hasina led Awami League to a land-slide victory in late 2008.
