Sheikh Hasina fled the country after resigning from the office of Prime Minister on Monday in the face of combined protests made by the students and public. In the continuation of the quota reform movement called by the anti-discrimination student movement. The Cabinet has been dissolved. At the same time, the process of forming an interim government to run the country is ongoing.
In this context, by 5 pm on Tuesday, various government websites of the country have been going through reformation. Photos and information of various ex-ministers or state ministers and former advisors of the former prime minister, including the recently ex-prime minister Sheikh Hasina, have been removed from the sites. The information contained various types of content including their resumes and messages.
In this, the photos of the ministers have been removed from the websites of the Department of Posts and Telecommunications and the ICT Division, only the photos and resumes of the secretaries are there. on the postal website. Although, in the website of postal department, there are details of the Secretary of the department Md. Mushfiqur Rahman, the link of the Facebook page on that page has been disabled. The photo gallery contains pictures of former secretaries and ministers. Similarly, on the website of the ICT Division, the biography of Secretary Md. Shamsul Arefin and the Director General Md. Mostafa Kamal is there. However, the number of videos on YouTube links on the top of the pages are few and far between. The same situation was seen on the website of the Ministry of Science and Technology. As usual, there are only the details of the secretary of the ministry, Md. Ali Hossain. As usual, the Facebook page has been closed. Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Chairman Engineer Mohiuddin Ahmed, Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) website has the profile of Secretary besides Executive Director Ranjit Kumar.
It is reported that cyber-attacks were carried out on various government websites till Tuesday morning. The attackers demanded the removal of previous government content from the website. As a result, users could not access the government website throughout the day on Tuesday. However, these websites were accessed at night.
But the Prime Minister’s Official website has been shut down.
Although the government websites of the country are linked to the National Portal framework, the website of a2i, which maintains these websites, is built on its own framework. In this regard, Adnan Faisal, Communications and Outreach Consultant of a2i said, after the maintenance work of the websites, the websites were reopened at 5:30 pm.
