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Protests topple Bangladesh government, drive PM into exile

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The prime minister, in power since January 2009, resigned at midday on Monday (local time) and fled to neighbouring India in a military helicopter, the BBC's Bengali service reported.

The resignation of the president comes as a result of the popular uprising that has become the wave of protests that broke out last July and that has been led by young students, who demanded the repeal of a law that set quotas for assigning jobs in the Public Administration.

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