DHAKA Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus returned Dhaka to strife– torn Bangladesh on Thursday, to lead a new interim government following weeks of tumultuous pupil demurrers forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to quit and flee to India.
Bangladesh will set up a new, interim government headed by Nobel Peace Prize- winning economist Muhammad Yunus moment.
Yunus, a harsh critic of deposed Sheikh Hasina, was proposed for the job by the pupil protesters who led the crusade against Sheikh Hasina. Muhammad Yunus was anticipated to be sworn in as principal counsel along with a platoon of counsels on Thursday in an interim government which the army chief stated may include 15 members, although addresses on the names continued till late on Wednesday.
Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League party was n’t involved in all parties addresses led by army chief General Waker- Uz- Zaman, who blazoned her abdication on Monday. Yunus is due to arrive Dhaka from Paris on Thursday, where he’d been entering treatment.
Sheikh Hasina’s dramatic exit on Monday from the South Asian country she ruled for four terms — and was reelected to a 5th in January — touched off jubilation and violence across the country, as crowds stormed her sanctioned hearthstone unopposed. Sheikh Hasina fled to India where she’s taking retreat at an air base near New Delhi.
Yunus and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party( BNP), called for calm and an end to violence in the country on Wednesday. “ No vengeance and destruction, ” said Sheikh Hasina’s bow rival and BNP leader Khaleda Zia, in a videotape address from her sanitarium bed to her sympathizers at a rally in Dhaka.
Zia and her expatriated son Tarique Rahman, addressed the rally and called for choices to be conducted within three months.