Six top officials of Bangladesh Bank including Deputy Governor Kazi Sayedur Rahman resigned as unrest erupted at Bangladesh Bank on August 7, the second day after offices reopened, Report informs referring to Dhaka Tribune.
Several witnesses said that the protesters first entered Deputy Governor Kazi Sayedur Rahman's room and pressured him to resign. Kazi Sayedur Rahman wrote his resignation on a blank paper and signed it before leaving the bank.
The angry officers then forced deputy governors Nurun Nahar, Md Khurshid Alam, and Md Habibur Rahman to sign blank papers.
Later, bank advisor Abu Farah Nasser and Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) head Masud Biswas were also asked to resign.
All these top officials of Bangladesh Bank were appointed on a contractual basis. The agitating officers declared them undesirable in the central bank and named Executive Director Zakir Hossain Chowdhury as the responsible officer of the bank.
Governor Abdur Rouf Talukder has not returned to the bank since the fall of Sheikh Hasina.
Aggrieved officials demanded the resignation of the four deputy governors, the BFIU head, and the policy advisor.