NEW DELHI: Simply three days after former prime minister Sheikh Hasina fled Bangladesh within the wake of violent protests that claimed the lives of 300 folks, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus was sworn-in as the pinnacle of the interim authorities on Thursday.
Yunus, 84, was advisable for the function by pupil protesters and returned to Dhaka earlier on Thursday from Paris, the place he was present process medical therapy.
“The nation has the potential of changing into a really lovely nation,” an emotional Yunus instructed reporters on the airport. “No matter path our college students present us, we’ll transfer forward with that.”
The ceremony, which began with a one-minute silence for these killed within the protests, additionally noticed the swearing-in of 13 advisors, together with two distinguished pupil leaders. Three extra advisors — Bidhan Ranjan Roy, Faruk-e-Azam, and Supradip Chakma — shall be taking oath at a later time.
President Mohammad Shahabuddin administered the oath to Yunus and the opposite advisors.
The 13 advisors who took oath:
1. Saleh Uddin Ahmed
2. Dr Asif Nazrul
3. Adilur Rahman Khan
4. Hasan Arif
5. Touhid Hossain
6. Syeda Rizwana Hasan
7. Md Nahid Islam
8. Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan
9. Brigadier Normal (retd) M Sakhawat Hossain
10. Farida Akhter
11. AFM Khalid Hasan
12. Noorjahan Begum
13. Sharmeen Murshid
Yunus, 84, was advisable for the function by pupil protesters and returned to Dhaka earlier on Thursday from Paris, the place he was present process medical therapy.
“The nation has the potential of changing into a really lovely nation,” an emotional Yunus instructed reporters on the airport. “No matter path our college students present us, we’ll transfer forward with that.”
The ceremony, which began with a one-minute silence for these killed within the protests, additionally noticed the swearing-in of 13 advisors, together with two distinguished pupil leaders. Three extra advisors — Bidhan Ranjan Roy, Faruk-e-Azam, and Supradip Chakma — shall be taking oath at a later time.
President Mohammad Shahabuddin administered the oath to Yunus and the opposite advisors.
The 13 advisors who took oath:
1. Saleh Uddin Ahmed
2. Dr Asif Nazrul
3. Adilur Rahman Khan
4. Hasan Arif
5. Touhid Hossain
6. Syeda Rizwana Hasan
7. Md Nahid Islam
8. Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan
9. Brigadier Normal (retd) M Sakhawat Hossain
10. Farida Akhter
11. AFM Khalid Hasan
12. Noorjahan Begum
13. Sharmeen Murshid
Who’re the coed leaders within the govt?
Md Nahid Islam and Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan, coordinators of the College students Towards Discrimination that led the student-led motion and managed to topple the Hasina-led Awami League authorities, had been additionally sworn-in as advisors to the interim authorities.
Alongside different coordinators, the 2 pupil leaders led the coed motion in opposition to the quota system in authorities jobs and later in opposition to the federal government.
