Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus was named chief adviser of Bangladesh’s interim government on Tuesday by Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin. This comes a day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country following violent protests.
Yunus held meetings with student leaders and chiefs of the three military services, according to media reports, citing a statement and officials from the president’s office.
If parliament was not dissolved, student protestors had threatened to hold additional demonstrations.
Demonstrations against public sector job quotas for families of veterans of Bangladesh’s 1971 independence struggle, which critics saw as a way to reserve jobs for party loyalists, gave rise to the movement that ousted Hasina.
Earlier, Sheikh Hasina, was forced to resign as Prime Minister on Monday evening after weeks-long protests over a jobs quota killed over 400 people. She fled Dhaka reportedly after the Bangladesh Army gave her a 45-minute ultimatum.
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