DHAKA: Bangladesh cabinet ministers submitted their resignations on Monday to allow Prime Minister Sheihk Hasina to form an all-party government to prepare for polls, a plan rejected by the opposi- tion, which wants a neutral care-taker government.

The move comes as the impoverished South Asian country has been gripped by a four-day nationwide general strike to force Hasina’s ruling Awami League to stage the elections under a technocrat-led government.

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