The interim government in Bangladesh should have Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus as the chief advisor – this is a strong demand made on Tuesday by the key organisers of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement who even warned that “any government other than the one we recommended would not be accepted.” Nahid Islam, a key coordinator of the movement, also emphasised that “no military government, or one backed by the military, or a government of fascists, will be accepted.” Prof Yunus has said to have given consent considering the present situation in Bangladesh.
Sheikh Hasina ‘destroyed’ legacy of her father In an interview with The Print , Yunus blamed former prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, for destroying the legacy of her father ‘Bangabandhu’ Mujibur Rehman. Hasina resigned from the post of Bangladesh Prime Minister on Monday and fled Dhaka. She landed at Hindon airport near Delhi in the evening and is expected to travel to the UK soon.
‘Bangladesh is liberated’ “We were an occupied country as long as she (Hasina) was there. She was behaving like an occupation force, a dictator, a general, controlling everything. Today all the people of Bangladesh feel liberated.
.. We are a free country now,” Yunus said.
“They (people of Bangladesh) are feeling the sense of liberation and joy that we can start all over again...
We wanted to do it in the first round when we became independent in 1971. And we missed it because of all the problems we h.