Nobel-winning economist Muhammad Yunus was sworn in to guide the transitional authorities in Bangladesh following the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s authorities over scholar protests.
President Mohammed Shahabuddin administered the oath to Yunus, 84, and his crew on the presidential workplace within the nationwide capital of Dhaka.
The place of the pinnacle of the transitional authorities is formally referred to as “chief adviser.”
Most members of the transitional authorities are technocrats. The crew contains two members from the coed group that led protests that compelled Hasina to resign and flee Bangladesh on Monday.
Army chief Gen. Waker-Uz-Zaman had introduced the formation of a transitional authorities after Hasina fled to India, the place she is at present.
Yunus was in France when the announcement was made. He returned Thursday.
“Bangladesh has began a brand new victory day. We have to maneuver on. We are grateful to those that did it, they (college students) saved the nation,” Yunus mentioned after touchdown in Dhaka.
Bangladesh has witnessed large-scale scholar protests since July in opposition to controversial civil service job quotas that killed greater than 400.
Shahabuddin dissolved parliament on Tuesday which was elected in January when Hasina was elected prime minister for a fourth time.
The major opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has demanded nationwide elections inside three months handy over energy to the folks’s representatives.
Source: www.dailysabah.com