Bangladesh protesters want Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to lead government
Al Jazeera
Yunus, known as the ‘banker to the poor’, is the choice of the student movement to head the new interim government.
Key organisers of Bangladesh’s student protests have said Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus should head an interim government after longtime Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country.
Nahid Islam, a 26-year-old sociology student who spearheaded the protest movement against quotas in government jobs that morphed into a national uprising against the administration, said in a video post on social media that Yunus had consented to take over.
“We want to see the process rolling by the morning,” Islam said late on Monday. “We urge the president to take steps as soon as possible to form an interim government headed by Dr Yunus.”
The protest organisers were scheduled to meet army officials on Tuesday, the army said in a statement.
Islam said the students would not accept an army-led government.
