Who comes after Sheikh Hasina? Following weeks of deadly protests, Bangladesh's 76-year-old Prime Minister left the country, raising this important question. Following Hasina's resignation, Bangladesh's Army Chief of Staff, Waker-Uz-Zaman, ruled out a military takeover and announced the formation of an interim civilian government. To determine the makeup of the interim administration, he will make a call to President Mohammed Shahabudin of the nation tonight.
Muhammad Yunus, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is rumoured to be leading a transitional administration until the next general elections. The other names making the rounds are Sara Hossain, a well-known lawyer, Jahngir Alam Chowdhury, a retired three-star general of the Bangladesh Army, and Salehuddin Ahmed, a former governor of the Bangladesh Bank. Muhammad Yunus, a social entrepreneur, banker, economist, and leader of civil society from Bangladesh, was born on June 28, 1940.
He founded the Grameen Bank and invented the ideas of microcredit and microfinance, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.Entrepreneurs who are too impoverished to be eligible for conventional bank loans are given these loans. Together, Yunus and Grameen Bank received the Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to create economic and social development from below through microcredit.
" The Norwegian Nobel Committee stated that "lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of pover.