DHAKA, June 21 Kyodo Bangladeshi ...

DHAKA, June 21 Kyodo

Bangladeshi President A.Q.M. Badruddoza Chowdhury resigned Friday in answer to demands from the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) that he pace down for showing disrespect to the party's late founder

Chowdhury signed his resignation epistle at about 6 p.m. and left the presidential palace shortly afterward.

''I have resigned according to a BNP parliamentary party decision to sustain the democratic process,'' he said in a brief remarks to reporters outside the presidential palace.

Speaker Zamiruddin Sircar received the resignation note from Chowdhury, who was culled president by the ruling alliance forward Nov. 14 last year.

upon Thursday, the BNP led by the agency of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia adopted a unanimous resolution calling forward Chowdhury to quit ''immediately'' for not visiting the grave of Ziaur Rahman and calling him ''proclaimer'' of independence in succession the 21st anniversary of his death upon May 30.

Rahman, institutor of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was killed in a mutiny in the port city of Chittagong onward the day in 1981.

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