Dhaka, Oct. 20 -- President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has accepted Ishraque Hossain's resignation as state minister for Liberation War Affairs.

The Cabinet Division confirmed the development on Tuesday, with Ishraque's resignation taking effect from Monday.

On Monday noon, Ishraque, son of former mayor of the undivided Dhaka City Corporation Sadeque Hossain Khoka, announced at a press conference at the National Press Club, with several hundred activists beside him, that he was quitting the post.

He made the decision amid controversy over a video of an armed "anti-drug drive".

Ishraque told the press conference that he took the decision so that the BNP or the government would not be "embarrassed" and the prime minister's work would n...