A student movement organiser said they will not accept an army-supported or army-led government
DHAKA - Bangladesh’s army chief will meet student protest leaders on Aug 6 as the country awaits the formation of a new government a day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country following a violent uprising against her rule.
Student leaders, who spearheaded a movement against job quotas that turned into a call for Ms Hasina to resign, said early on Aug 6 that they want a new interim government with Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus as its chief adviser. “Any government other than the one we recommended would not be accepted,” Mr Nahid Islam, one of the key organisers of the student movement, said in a video on Facebook with three other organisers. “We wouldn’t accept any army-supported or army-led government.”
“We have also had discussions with Muhammad Yunus and he has agreed to take on this responsibility at our invitation,” Mr Islam added.plans to meet the protest organisers at 12pm local time on Aug 6, the army said in a statement, a day after Mr Zaman announced Ms Hasina’s resignation in a televised address and said an interim government would be formed.
Mr Yunus, 84, and his Grameen Bank won the 2006 Nobel Peace prize for work to lift millions out of poverty by granting tiny loans of under $100 to the rural poor of Bangladesh, but he was indicted by a court in June on charges of embezzlement that he denied.Ms Hasina, 76, landed at a military airfield, Hindon, near Delhi on Aug 5 after leaving Dhaka, two Indian government officials told Reuters, adding that India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval met her there.
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