{"id":119049,"date":"2026-07-26T12:20:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=119049"},"modified":"2026-07-26T12:20:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:20:50","slug":"bangladesh-president-mohammad-shahabuddin-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/bangladesh-president-mohammad-shahabuddin-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh President Mohammad Shahabuddin resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DHAKA: Bangladesh President Mohammad Shahabuddin has resigned from his post. According to a foreign news agency, 76-year-old Mohammad Shahabuddin had been serving as president since April 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Shahabuddin\u2019s 5-year term was to end in 2028, and opposition parties had also been demanding his resignation for a long time. Shahabuddin was considered a close ally of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/bangladesh-awaits-interim-government-may-include-nobel-laureate-yunus\/\">Shahabuddin<\/a> said in a statement that he was diagnosed with autonomic neuropathy in a recent medical examination. Due to this disease, he sometimes experiences sudden short-term loss of consciousness, which is why he decided to step down.<\/p>\n<p>A statement issued by the president\u2019s press secretary said that the speaker of the national parliament will perform the duties of the president until the election of a new president.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Bangladeshi constitution, Speaker Hafizuddin Ahmed will assume the responsibilities as the interim president, and a new president will be elected within the next 90 days.<\/p>\n<p>According to a foreign news agency, the resignation came at a time when news was circulating in the local media that Shahabuddin had spoken to former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is absconding in India, on the phone during a visit to the UK for medical treatment in May this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHAKA: Bangladesh President Mohammad Shahabuddin has resigned from his post. According to a foreign news agency, 76-year-old Mohammad Shahabuddin had been serving as president since April 2023. Shahabuddin\u2019s 5-year term was to end in 2028, and opposition parties had also been demanding his resignation for a long time. Shahabuddin was considered a close ally of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":119050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[43949],"class_list":["post-119049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-bangladesh-president-resigns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119051,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119049\/revisions\/119051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}