Political tension in Bangladesh is growing anew after a leading student group called for the country’s figurehead president to resign over comments he made that appeared to call into question former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s resignation in August.

In an interview with Bangla daily Manab Zamin last week, Shahabuddin said he did not have any documentary evidence of Hasina resigning as prime minister before she fled the country on August 5 amidst student-led mass protests.

Bangladeshi protesters laid siege to the presidential palace Bangabhaban on Tuesday, demanding the resignation of President Mohammed Shahabuddin. There’s growing anger against him after he said in a recent interview that there was no documentary evidence that Sheikh Hasina had resigned in August,