DHAKA: Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus took the oath of workplace as head of Bangladesh’s interim govt on Thursday. Prez Mohammed Shahabuddin additionally administered oath to 13 members of the advisory council, which incorporates key organisers of Anti-Discrimination Pupil Motion — Nahid Islam and Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan. Of their mid-20s, the 2 led the protests that resulted within the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s govt.
The council consists of girls’s rights activist Farida Akhtar, professor of Islamic historical past and Hefazat-e-Islam’s deputy chief AFM Khalid Hossain, Grameen Telecom trustee Nurjahan Begum, freedom fighters Sharmeen Murshid and Farooq-e-Azam, Chittagong Hill Tracts Improvement Board chairman Supradip Chakma, Nationwide Institute of Psychological Well being and Hospital’s psychiatry professor Bidhan Ranjan Roy, and former overseas secretary Touhid Hossain.
Additionally serving are Bangladesh Financial institution’s former governor Salehuddin Ahmed, Dhaka College professor Asif Nazrul, human rights activist Adilur Rahman Khan, ex-attorney basic AF Hassan Arif, Bangladesh environmental legal professionals affiliation chief government Syeda Rizwana Hasan, and former election commissioner Brig Gen (retd) M Sakhawat Hossain.
Roy, Chakma, and Farooq e Azam, a naval commando awarded the Bir Pratik for bravery within the 1971 independence struggle, couldn’t take the oath as they have been exterior Dhaka.
Yunus, who had been in Paris for the Olympic Video games, returned to Dhaka on Thursday through Dubai, the place he was greeted on the airport by military chief Gen Waker-Uz-Zaman, senior officers, scholar leaders, and civil society members. “At present is a day of our delight,” Yunus stated emotionally at a press convention on the airport. “Now we have received independence for the second time. Now we have to guard this independence,” he added, referring to the ouster of ex-PM Sheikh Hasina because the nation’s “second independence”. Yunus advised the general public: “When you’ve got religion in me and belief me, then be certain that there shall be no assault wherever within the nation. That is our first duty. If I can’t do it and you don’t take heed to me, I don’t have any utility right here.”
Bangladesh has been rocked by lethal unrest in latest weeks. At the very least 232 folks have been killed in Bangladesh in violence that erupted following the autumn of Hasina govt Monday, taking the demise toll to 560 since anti-quota protests first began in mid-July. Following the autumn of Hasina’s govt, a number of police stations have been attacked, forcing officers to evacuate because of the menace of additional violence. In response to Yunus’s name, police returned to work Thursday.
Yunus expressed gratitude to the youth behind the motion, underscoring the necessity to save the nation from violence and transfer ahead on the trail proven by the scholars. “The coed protesters had saved the nation, he stated, including: “No matter path our college students present us, we’ll transfer forward with that.” Bangladesh Nationalist Celebration of Khaleda Zia expressed optimism that Yunus will efficiently lead interim govt. The optimism stems from Yunus’s profitable anti-poverty marketing campaign by the Grameen Financial institution, which has been replicated throughout continents.
The council consists of girls’s rights activist Farida Akhtar, professor of Islamic historical past and Hefazat-e-Islam’s deputy chief AFM Khalid Hossain, Grameen Telecom trustee Nurjahan Begum, freedom fighters Sharmeen Murshid and Farooq-e-Azam, Chittagong Hill Tracts Improvement Board chairman Supradip Chakma, Nationwide Institute of Psychological Well being and Hospital’s psychiatry professor Bidhan Ranjan Roy, and former overseas secretary Touhid Hossain.
Additionally serving are Bangladesh Financial institution’s former governor Salehuddin Ahmed, Dhaka College professor Asif Nazrul, human rights activist Adilur Rahman Khan, ex-attorney basic AF Hassan Arif, Bangladesh environmental legal professionals affiliation chief government Syeda Rizwana Hasan, and former election commissioner Brig Gen (retd) M Sakhawat Hossain.
Roy, Chakma, and Farooq e Azam, a naval commando awarded the Bir Pratik for bravery within the 1971 independence struggle, couldn’t take the oath as they have been exterior Dhaka.
Yunus, who had been in Paris for the Olympic Video games, returned to Dhaka on Thursday through Dubai, the place he was greeted on the airport by military chief Gen Waker-Uz-Zaman, senior officers, scholar leaders, and civil society members. “At present is a day of our delight,” Yunus stated emotionally at a press convention on the airport. “Now we have received independence for the second time. Now we have to guard this independence,” he added, referring to the ouster of ex-PM Sheikh Hasina because the nation’s “second independence”. Yunus advised the general public: “When you’ve got religion in me and belief me, then be certain that there shall be no assault wherever within the nation. That is our first duty. If I can’t do it and you don’t take heed to me, I don’t have any utility right here.”
Bangladesh has been rocked by lethal unrest in latest weeks. At the very least 232 folks have been killed in Bangladesh in violence that erupted following the autumn of Hasina govt Monday, taking the demise toll to 560 since anti-quota protests first began in mid-July. Following the autumn of Hasina’s govt, a number of police stations have been attacked, forcing officers to evacuate because of the menace of additional violence. In response to Yunus’s name, police returned to work Thursday.
Yunus expressed gratitude to the youth behind the motion, underscoring the necessity to save the nation from violence and transfer ahead on the trail proven by the scholars. “The coed protesters had saved the nation, he stated, including: “No matter path our college students present us, we’ll transfer forward with that.” Bangladesh Nationalist Celebration of Khaleda Zia expressed optimism that Yunus will efficiently lead interim govt. The optimism stems from Yunus’s profitable anti-poverty marketing campaign by the Grameen Financial institution, which has been replicated throughout continents.
