Yunus, known as the ‘banker to the poor’, is the choice of the student movement to head the new interim government.
Key organisers of Bangladesh’s student protests have said Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus should head an interim government after longtime Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country.
Nahid Islam, a 26-year-old sociology student who spearheaded the protest movement against quotas in government jobs that morphed into a national uprising against the administration, said in a video post on social media that Yunus had consented to take over.
“We want to see the process rolling by the morning,” Islam said late on Monday. “We urge the president to take steps as soon as possible to form an interim government headed by Dr Yunus.”
Mohammed Shahabuddin, the country’s figurehead president, on Tuesday announced that parliament had been dissolved after assuring earlier that new elections would be held as soon as possible. The announcement came after protest organizers met to meet the army chief.
The leaders of the protesting students have repeatedly said that they do not accept the military government.
Islam said: "We gave our blood, we died as martyrs and fulfilled our promise to build a new Bangladesh."
"No government other than that proposed by the students will be accepted. "As we have said, no military government, pro-military government or fascist government will be accepted."
In a report from Dhaka, the group Students Against Discrimination, Al Jazeera's Tanveer Chaudhry, issued an "ultimatum" saying that parliament should be dissolved or they would return to protest, and their demand would be accepted. . Chowdhury said the city's streets were relatively calm on Tuesday as many businesses reopened, but tension remained in the air as the campaign called for calm as a lineup was unveiled. name for the new government.
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Younes (84) has been named as the government's interim chief adviser.
Known as "the bank of the poor", he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 after he worked on microfinance, which helps lift millions of people out of poverty. offering small loans. He faced corruption charges in Bangladesh and was prosecuted during Hasina's administration, but said the charges against him were politically motivated.
According to the Reuters news agency, a spokesman for Yunus said he accepted the students' request for a temporary government adviser. The Nobel laureate will return to Bangladesh "immediately" after a short medical procedure in Paris, the spokesman said.
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Mohamed Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of Grameen Bank, who pioneered microfinance [File: Themba Hadebe/AP]
After Hasina's ouster on Monday, army chief General Walker-Oz-Zaman said he was temporarily in charge of the country while the military tried to to keep the growing problems at bay.
He said he had spoken with leaders of major political parties - apart from the long-ruling Awami Party - and said an interim government would rule Bangladesh.
He also promised to investigate the deaths of 135 people across Bangladesh since mid-July in some of the country's worst bloodshed since the 1971 independence war. "We will investigate all murders and punish those responsible."
President Shahabuddin also said the decision was "unanimous" to continue releasing Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader and Hasina's opponent, Begum Khaleda Zia, who was indicted in a corruption case in 2018, but he was taken to the hospital. A year later his health deteriorated. He has denied the allegations against him.
UN human rights chief Volker Turk said that the transfer of power to Bangladesh must be "in accordance with international obligations" and with the "inclusion and participation of all Bangladeshis".
The protests began quietly last month when disgruntled students demanded an end to the quota system for government jobs, which they say favors those affiliated with Hasina's Awami League party. They then morphed into an unprecedented challenge to Hasina, amid a harsh crackdown by police, highlighting the extent of economic distress in the country.
On Monday, protesters defied a military curfew to march into the capital’s centre, setting fire to Hasina’s official residence and massing outside the parliament building, where a banner reading “justice” was hung.
Crowds also ransacked Hasina’s family ancestral home-turned-museum where her father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman – the country’s first president and independence leader – was assassinated.
Hasina, meanwhile, landed at a military airfield near New Delhi and met India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval, according to Indian media reports, which also said that she was taken to a safe house and was likely to travel to the United Kingdom.
India’s foreign minister on Tuesday gave the first official confirmation that Hasina was in the country. S. Jaishankar told parliament in an emergency session that he was "deeply concerned about the opening of law and order" in neighboring Bangladesh.
Hasina, 76, has been in power since 2009 but was accused of electoral fraud in January and saw millions take to the streets last month calling for her ouster. he.
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