WATCH: Sheikh Hasina In Exile, Her Coalition Partner's Party Office Vandalised, Set Ablaze

Dhaka: Bangladesh's ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's coalition, Jatiya Party, central office in Dhaka, was vandalised and set on fire on Thursday. The party is Bangladesh's third largest and was founded by former military dictator and President Hussain Muhammad Ershad in the 1980s.Protesters against Sheikh Hasina were angered when Jatiya Party announced that it would hold a rally in Dhaka on Saturday. Clashes erupted when protesters carrying the Chhatra Sramik Janata banner marched with a torch procession in front of the Jatiya Party's central office in Kakrail area, the heart of the capital Dhaka.They vandalized the Jatiya Party office, pulled down signboards and smeared ink on party founder Ershad's picture on the wall. Fire tenders were rushed to the spot and security personnel including the Police and the Army were deployed in front of the Jatiya Party office. The extend of the damage was not immediately known.

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As the attack was underway, a prominent leader of a student protest movement that led to Hasina's ouster in August said the Jatiya Party should be "destroyed" for its support of her government. reported AP.Hasina's Bangladesh Awami League party ruled the country for 15 years, since 2009. Her critics allege that the Jatiya Party had acted to give Hasina's rule a veneer or democracy as other major political parties did not take part in the elections.Sheikh Hasina fled the country to India on August 5 amid growing pressure from anti-quota protestors and the country's army. She landed in Ghaziabad, India and continues to live at an undisclosed location.Following this, Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi Nobel laurate, took over as head of an interim government backed by the student group and the country's influential military in August.However, his administration has been struggling to restore law and order in the country.