In a significant political development, Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus has accepted the students’ nomination to lead Bangladesh’s interim government. This decision follows the ouster and subsequent fleeing of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed from Dhaka. The mainstream newspaper, quoting a reliable source, confirmed this information to The Daily Star.
“When I was contacted on behalf of the students, I didn’t agree at first. I told them I have a lot of work to finish. But the students repeatedly requested me,” the source quoted Yunus as saying.
According to The Daily Star, one of the students argued passionately for Yunus to take the role: “Many people lost their lives in this movement and many students and common people were killed. Now Bangladesh has the opportunity to run the country in a proper way. And it is possible only if you take responsibility. If you don’t agree to take responsibility, it won’t be good for any of us. That’s why we’re asking you to take responsibility.”
Yunus reflected on the sacrifices made by the students and the people of Bangladesh, stating, “I also considered that these students had protested so much, they had to pay so much for it. If the students can sacrifice so much, if the people of the country can sacrifice so much, then I also have some responsibility. Then I told the students that I can take the responsibility.”
Yunus is currently abroad in Paris, where he attended an event as a special guest at the invitation of the Olympic Committee and is undergoing medical treatment. He is expected to return to Bangladesh “as soon as possible” to assume his new role.
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