The Government of Bangladesh officially released Muhammad Yunus as a Councillor

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Bangladeshi President Mohammed Shahabuddin has dissolved the country’s parliament on Tuesday (6/8/2024). Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has been appointed as the chief adviser to the interim government of Bangladesh

The dissolution of parliament came after an ultimatum issued by student protest coordinators forcing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign. The president’s office also announced that former prime minister and opposition leader, Begum Khaleda Zia, was officially released from prison and granted a full presidential pardon.

The army chief, General Waker-Uz-Zaman, said on Monday that the military would be the interim government after Hasina’s departure. Later on Tuesday night, a 13-person student delegation accompanied by two professors from Dhaka University went to Shahabuddin’s residence to meet Zaman and other military leaders.

After nearly two hours of talks, Nahid Islam, one of the student leaders, told reporters that there had been an agreement between all parties that Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus would be the chief adviser to the government. interim and that the negotiations would continue.

Yunus (84) and his Grameen Bank, a microcredit organization, won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in lifting millions of people out of poverty by providing small loans of less than US$100 to the poor rural in Bangladesh.

Student leaders said they wanted Yunus as a top adviser to the interim government, and a spokesman for Yunus said he agreed. Meanwhile, Yunus is in Paris to undergo a medical procedure and is expected to return to Dhaka soon.

There was no comment from Yunus regarding his resignation. It is not yet known when the interim government will take over.

The move to oust Hasina came in the wake of protests against civil service quotas for families of veterans of Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence, which critics saw as a way to preserve jobs. for friends of the ruling party. Around 400 people have been killed and thousands injured in the violence that has gripped the country since July.

After demonstrators stormed and destroyed the prime minister’s luxury residence on Monday, the streets of the capital Dhaka returned to calm on Tuesday, with lighter traffic than usual and many schools and businesses closed due to the unrest. still closed.

Clothing factories, which supply clothes to some of the world’s leading brands and are a mainstay of the economy, will open on Wednesday.

Hasina’s flight ended her second 15-year term in office in the country of 170 million people, which she has led for 20 of the past 30 years as the leader of a political movement inherited from her father, the founder of the state Mujibur Rahman, after he was assassinated in 1975.

Since the early 1990s, Hasina has been in a power struggle with rival Zia, who inherited her own political movement from her husband Ziaur Rahman, a ruler who was also assassinated in 1981. .

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