Sheikh Hasina -- a 'deposed' world’s longest-serving female leader !! ::::: 29 bodies of Sheikh Hasina's party leaders found in violence-hit Bangladesh

The sudden downfall of the world’s longest-serving female leader has ended one of South Asia’s most enduring political dynasties. 

But will Hasina’s legacy be huge development gains or rights abuses and alleged killings? -- asks an article in 'The Guardian', London 

Dhaka : A common place market - file snap

Meanwhile, it has been reported that at least 29 bodies of Awami League leaders and their family members were found across Bangladesh as violence continued despite Sheikh Hasina resigning as Prime Minister and leaving the country amid anti-quota protests by students.

Over 400 dead in unrest after Sheikh Hasina quit as PM and fled to India

At least 10 people were killed in violence in Satkhira after Hasina's resignation and departure on Monday. Houses and business establishments belonging to several Awami League leaders were vandalised and looted, The Dhaka Tribune reported.

In Cumilla, at least 11 people were killed in attacks by mobs. Six people died as a three-storey house of former councillor Mohammad Shah Alam was set on fire by miscreants.   Meanwhile, four people died after a mob set on fire the house of an MP Shafiqul Islam Shimul on Tuesday. Their bodies were found in several rooms, balconies and roofs of the house.

Locals found the bodies of two leaders of Jubo League, the youth wing of Awami League. Of them, the body of Juba League leader Mushfiqur Rahim was found under a bridge in Sonagazi Upazila, according to The Dhaka Tribune.

In Bogra, a mob hacked two Jubo League leaders to death.

On Monday, locals found six bodies from the house of district Awami League Joint General Secretary Suman Khan that was set on fire by a mob in Lalmonirhat on Monday.

The situation in Bangladesh remains volatile with deaths due to the unrest surpassing 400, and Sheikh Hasina hiding in India after fleeing Bangladesh under an hour after resigning from her post.

Hundreds of Hindu houses, businesses and temples have been burnt and vandalised since Sheikh Hasina's resignation. India said it was worried about the incidents, with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar saying the ministry was monitoring the situation.

Amid the protests, Bangladesh got its interim government on Tuesday after Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus was named the chief adviser of the same. Known as the 'banker of the poor', 84-year-old Yunus was the top choice of the protesting students for the job, and his appointment came following a crucial meeting chaired by President Mohammed Shahabuddin.

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'The Guardian' article:

The world’s longest-serving female leader was, according to her son, “in good spirits, but disheartened and disappointed in the lack of gratitude of the people of Bangladesh”.

After weeks of protests, more than 300 deaths and increased international criticism of her government’s slide into autocracy, the long rule of Sheikh Hasina ended on Monday as she fled the country she had led for a combined total of more than 20 years.

          Chinese-built Padma Bridge Project is Bangladesh's largest bridge project. Photo: Xinhua/Global Times

The daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh’s first president who led his country to independence in 1971, Hasina flew to India, where she was born in 1947 and where she was granted asylum in 1975, after a military coup caused the deaths of most of her family.

It was 49 years ago this month that her father, mother, young brothers and 15 others were shot dead in what were called the “midnight murders”. Hasina, her husband and her sister Sheikh Rehana were travelling in Germany at the time and so survived.

Ironically for a woman deposed by a student uprising, while at Dhaka University studying literature, Hasina built a reputation as a student leader and feminist. Her political bent resumed when she returned to Bangladesh from a six-year exile in India in 1981, after being elected leader of her late father’s Awami League (AL) party.

Hasina joined forces with a woman whom she would later imprison: Khaleda Zia, leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist party (BNP), and widow of Ziaur Rahman, a military officer and politician who served as president from 1977 until his assassination in 1981. 

With an astute show of unity, at least on the surface, the two women led a pro-democracy mass uprising in 1990 that forced the resignation of the despotic president, Hussain Muhammad Ershad, a general who had seized power in 1982.

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