‘Bangladesh has sewage a 2nd independence,’ Nobel laureate says earlier gathering service chief, president and his swearing-in ceremony.
Published On 8 Aug 2024
Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus has returned to Bangladesh to caput an interim authorities aft weeks of student-led protests forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign and fly to India.
“It’s bully to beryllium backmost home,” said nan 84-year-old aft rubbing down astatine Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport successful nan capital, Dhaka, connected Thursday connected a formation from Paris via Dubai.
Yunus was picked by President Mohammed Shahabuddin to lead an interim government, fulfilling a key demand of nan student protestation leaders.
Reporting from Dhaka,Jazeera’s Tanvir Chowdhury said Yunus was expected to caput first to a gathering pinch nan service main and nan president earlier being sworn successful astatine 8pm (14:00 GMT).
“Today is simply a glorious time for us,” Yunus told reporters astatine nan airport. “Bangladesh has created a caller triumph day. Bangladesh has sewage a 2nd independence.”
Yunus’s main nonsubjective was to clasp elections arsenic soon arsenic possible, said Chowdhury, noting that nan canvass should beryllium held 90 days from nan dissolving of nan country’s Parliament, which occurred connected Tuesday.
“[He] himself has said he doesn’t want to beryllium a semipermanent caretaker authorities chief,” he said.
Students had taken to nan streets past period complete a arguable authorities occupation quota system, their protests escalating into a nationwide crisis pursuing a harsh crackdown by authorities.
Nearly 300 group were killed wrong weeks successful 1 of nan astir convulsive phases of Hasina’s 15-year rule.
Hasina, 76, was forced to measurement down and flee, pinch millions of Bangladeshis celebrating her governmental demise.
Yunus is an economist and banker who was awarded nan 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for founding Grameen Bank, which pioneered fighting poorness pinch microloans.
“The students wanted personification noncontroversial, nonpolitical, personification who is neutral, who has world connections and tin bring thing to nan array for Bangladesh astatine this infinitesimal which is successful crisis,” said Chowdhury.
The seasoned world had travelled overseas this twelvemonth while connected bail aft being sentenced to six months successful jailhouse connected a complaint condemned arsenic politically motivated. He was acquitted connected Wednesday by a Dhaka court.
Yunus was deed pinch much than 100 criminal cases and a smear run by a state-led agency that accused him of promoting homosexuality, pinch courts accused of rubber-stamping decisions by Hasina’s government.
Army main General Waker-Uz-Zaman said he backed Yunus: “I americium definite that he will beryllium capable to return america done a beautiful antiauthoritarian process.”
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