Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus took the oath of workplace Thursday to steer a 17-member transitional authorities in Bangladesh.
It got here after weeks of protests which led to the autumn of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League authorities.
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 consists of two members from the scholar group which led protests that pressured 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 started a new victory day. We have to move on. We are thankful to those who did it, they (students) saved the country,” Yunus mentioned after touchdown in Dhaka.
Bangladesh had 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 essential opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has demanded nationwide elections inside three months at hand over energy to the individuals’s representatives.
Source: www.anews.com.tr