Listen to Story When kingdoms fall, the palace gates are swung wide open. And when rulers flee, protesters enter the palaces with all their might. In Dhaka, protesters did exactly that.
They entered Ganabhaban, the PM's residence, after Sheikh Hasina tendered her resignation and left the nation as a sea of protesters marched towards Ganabhaban. Bangladesh is not the only nation where commoners stormed the leader's residence as the regime fell. This was also seen when kingdoms fell in Sri Lanka, Iraq and in Afghanistan.
On Monday, protesters stormed Hasina's residence to assert their victory. In a video, which has gone viral on social media, a man is seen lying on a bed at the PM's house. He is reclined on the bed and is seen talking to people.
He says, "Gonobhobon is under our control". In another video, people are seen looting television sets, chairs and tables from the PM's house. Even kitchens and refrigerators were ransacked as people feasted on fish and biryani.
The clip of a man with a huge fish on the Ganabhaban campus also went viral. Others took her saree and a Dior suitcase. Hasina was fond of sarees and had a good saree collection.
One of the worst scenes was of a ransacker posing with female lingerie retrieved from Ganabhaban. Bangladesh is one of the countries in the last five years to see such loot. This was seen in some other places too, where the ruler had been deposed.
It could be the result of people's assertion and a show of symbolic capture after a period .