The president’s office said in a statement that Bangladesh’s parliament was disbanded on Tuesday. This came one day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina quit and left the country because of violent protests that called for her removal.
It was made public hours after leaders of striking students set a deadline to dissolve parliament and said a “strict program” would begin if their deadline wasn’t met.
Monday, Army Chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman said that Hasina had quit after weeks of deadly protests and that the military would set up a temporary government.
Hasina, who is 76 years old, had been in charge since 2009, but in January she was accused of cheating the polls. Since then, millions of people have taken to the streets, calling for her to step down.
Following hours, President Mohammed Shahabuddin announced that all those arrested during the student protests, along with Khaleda Zia, a key opposition leader, would be set free. He said this after speaking with the army chief.
Zia, who is 78 years old and is the chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), is in bad health and was mostly under house arrest after being given a 17-year prison term for graft in 2018.
“Nobel Winner Yunus Should Run The Caretaker Government,”
On Tuesday, protesting Bangladeshi students said they would try to get Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus to lead a temporary government. This came a day after the military removed the prime minister and took over.
An important leader of Students Against Discrimination (SAD), Nahid Islam, said in a video message, “We have decided that the internationally famous Nobel Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus, who is liked by many people, will be the chief adviser of the interim government.”
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Yunus, an 84-year-old recognized economist, is credited with helping millions of people get out of poverty with his groundbreaking microfinance bank. However, Hasina hated him and said he was “sucking blood” from the poor.
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