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2024 — Hasina Resignation and Fall of Government

The Long March to Dhaka ends a fifteen-year Awami League government.

On 5 August 2024, after weeks of mass protests and a planned Long March to Dhaka, Sheikh Hasina resigned and left Bangladesh for India. Protesters entered Ganabhaban, and the military announced steps toward forming an interim arrangement.[1][2][3]Evidence: Medium

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The Long March to Dhaka ends a fifteen-year Awami League government.

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On 5 August 2024, after weeks of mass protests and a planned Long March to Dhaka, Sheikh Hasina resigned and left Bangladesh for India. Protesters entered Ganabhaban, and the military announced steps toward forming an interim arrangement.[1][2][3]Evidence: Medium

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Sheikh Hasina

LeaderPerson

Awami League leader and prime minister during the 2024 uprising

As prime minister, she led the Awami League government during the July-August 2024 crackdown and resigned on 5 August 2024 after the student-led uprising reached a decisive national rupture.

Bangladesh politics from the anti-Ershad movement through the 2024 Anti-Discrimination Movement and post-resignation transition.

Her resignation turned the protest wave into a state-transition moment and made accountability for protest repression a central public question.

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Nahid Islam

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator; later interim-government adviser

From protest coordination to state transition, he became one of the movement’s central public figures.

A leading coordinator of Students Against Discrimination, he became one of the public faces of the 2024 quota-reform protests and later served as an adviser in the interim government formed in August 2024.

Dhaka University-linked student coordination; July-August 2024 protest phase and post-uprising transition.

His leadership linked street mobilization with the political transition after 5 August 2024.

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Dr. Muhammad Yunus

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Interim government chief adviser

Student-nominated transition leadership made him the bridge figure after the uprising.

After Sheikh Hasina’s resignation in August 2024, student coordinators nominated Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to lead Bangladesh’s interim government.

Post-uprising transition; oath on 8 August 2024.

He became the institutional face of the transition from street uprising to interim governance.

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On 5 August 2024, after weeks of mass protests and a planned Long March to Dhaka, Sheikh Hasina resigned and left Bangladesh for India. Protesters entered Ganabhaban, and the military announced steps toward forming an interim arrangement.

[1][2][3]Evidence: Medium

The resignation marked one of the most consequential transfers of power in Bangladesh since 1990 and became the bridge between the student-led movement and the interim-government phase.

[1][2][3]Evidence: Medium

Why This Event Matters Today

The resignation marked one of the most consequential transfers of power in Bangladesh since 1990 and became the bridge between the student-led movement and the interim-government phase.[1][2][3]Evidence: Medium