Rumah Paul
DHAKA (Reuters) – Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus returned to conflict-torn Bangladesh on Thursday to lead a new interim government. Resigned and fled to neighboring India.
Yunus, 84, the South Asian country’s only Nobel laureate and a fierce critic of Hasina, arrived in Dhaka after receiving medical treatment in Paris after protesters backed him in a government tasked with electing a new leader. Hold a position.
“I feel good coming home,” the economist said at the airport, where he was greeted by senior military officers and student leaders.
He said student protesters saved the country and freedoms must be protected, adding, “We will continue to move forward no matter what path our students show us.”
Yunus will be sworn in as head of the advisory team at President Mohammad Shahabuddin’s official residence at 1430 GMT.
Hasina’s Awami League party is no longer part of the interim government after she resigned on Monday.
However, her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy said in a Facebook post that the party has not given up and is ready to hold talks with the opposition and the interim government.
“I have said that my family will no longer be involved in politics, but our party leaders and workers are under attack and we cannot give up,” he said on Wednesday.
Known as the “poor man’s banker,” Yunus won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for founding a bank that pioneered the eradication of poverty by providing small loans to poor borrowers.
Hasina’s dramatic exit from the country she had ruled for 20 of the past 30 years and won a fourth consecutive term in January sparked cheers and violence, with crowds storming in and ransacking her house without resistance. official residence.
She is taking refuge at an air force base near the Indian capital, New Delhi, a development that Yunus said had sparked anger among some Bangladeshis against India.
The student-led movement to oust Hasina grew out of protests over government job quotas, which rose sharply in July and triggered a violent crackdown that drew global criticism, although the government denied using excessive force.
Protests have also been fueled by dire economic conditions and political repression in the country, which emerged from a 1971 war of liberation from Pakistan.
