Military says interim government will be formed after PM Sheikh Hasina fled the country following a violent uprising against her
Anti-government protesters celebrate in Dhaka, after the prime minister fled and the military announced it would form an interim government. Photograph: ABU SUFIAN JEWEL/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images’s army chief will meet student protest leaders on Tuesday as the country awaits the formation of a new government a day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled following a violent uprising against her.
Student leaders, who spearheaded a movement against job quotas that turned into a call for Ms Hasina to resign, said early on Tuesday that they want a new interim government with Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus as its chief adviser.Turkey seeks to cull its stray dogs. Critics say it’s about politics“Any government other than the one we recommended would not be accepted,” Nahid Islam, one of the key organisers of the student movement, said in a video on Facebook with three other organisers.
Reports said Mr Yunus is currently in Paris. He told Indian broadcaster Times Now in a recorded interview that Monday marked the “second liberation day” for Bangladesh after its 1971 war of independence from Pakistan. Bangladesh army chief Gen Waker-Uz-Zaman plans to meet the protest organisers at noon local time on Tuesday, the army said in a statement, a day after Gen Zaman announced Ms Hasina’s resignation in a televised address and said an interim government would be formed.
An interim government will hold elections as soon as possible after consulting all parties and stakeholders, Mr Shahabuddin said in a televised address late on Monday.
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