Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus greets attendants upon his arrival on the Bangabhaban to take the oath of workplace as head of the interim authorities, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, August 8, 2024. | Photograph credit score: REUTERS
Bangladesh was experiencing a “student-led revolution” after the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the South Asian nation’s new interim chief, Muhammad Yunus, mentioned.
“This can be a revolution, a student-led revolution,” the Nobel laureate mentioned at a press convention.
“There isn’t any doubt about it [that] as a result of the whole authorities enterprise collapsed.”
Mr Yunus returned to Bangladesh from Europe on Thursday (8 August 2024) after pupil leaders of the protests that ousted Ms Hasina known as him and requested him to push for democratic reforms.
“I advised him, ‘I respect you, I like you. What you’ve got carried out is unparalleled,'” he mentioned.
“Since you ordered me to do that, I perform your orders,” Yunus claimed he advised them.
A number of high allies of Hasina, whose hardline rule ended together with her abrupt resignation and flight to India per week in the past, have since stepped down.
Amongst them had been the previous president of the Supreme Courtroom and the governor of the central financial institution.
The scholars had given them ultimatums to depart their posts.
Mr Yunus mentioned their resignations had been carried out legally.
“I am positive they’ll discover a authorized option to justify all this, as a result of legally… all of the steps had been adopted,” he mentioned.
Mr Yunus made the feedback at an unofficial press convention on Sunday (11 August 2024) night at a state constructing used because the momentary seat of presidency.
His workplace agreed to its publication on Monday night (August 12, 2024).
