The Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus was sworn in Thursday to lead the Bangladesh acting government following a three -day power of power that resulted from Sheikh Hasina who left the Prime Minister and fleeing the country.
The 84 -year -old microcredit pioneer faces a massive task of restoring public order, stabilizing a lame saving and preparing the way for free and fair elections. No mention was made during the ceremony for the duration of the power by the interim government.
The president of Bangladesh, Mohammed Shahabuddin, whose role is largely symbolic, took an oath to Yunus and the others at the presidential palace of Dhaka.
“I will defend, support and protect the Constitution and I will sincerely be my functions,” said Yunus as part of his oath.
Yunus now has the title of chief advisor and runs a body of 16 which includes the rest of the interim administration.
Taking the oath alongside Yunus was more than a dozen individuals from various fields, including two university students who have become familiar faces in the Bangladais in recent days.
Students of the University of Dhaka, Nahid Islam and Asif Mahmud, were key personalities from the demonstrations of students who have become fatal and have become a mass movement requiring that Hasina resigns.
The acting government also includes human rights activists, legal experts, two former diplomats, a doctor and a former governor of the Bangladesh Central Bank. A Benarnews journalist on the scene has seen no one from the Hasina Awami League party.
The test ceremony, which started around 8 p.m., attended by judges, NGO heads, chiefs of the three branches of the army, the new police chief of the country, foreign diplomats and leaders of political parties.
Yunus won the Nobel for raising millions of poverty by lending them small amounts of money – microlaves – to open small businesses. Its microphy model has been reproduced in more than 100 countries – although it has been insulted by Hasina and, according to supporters, subject to legal harassment during its administration.
A DACCA student, Salma Akhter, from Tejgaon College, was enthusiastic about the prospect Yunus led the new government.
“It is a famous person. What we need is a visionary leader who will not bring wealth through corruption practices. And will not imply it in corruption practices,” she told Benarnews.
“We hope that the government will make institutional reforms and restore democratic institutions before holding national elections.”
Yunus had been in Paris when he was announced that he had been selected to direct the interim administration and returned home a few hours before the oath ceremony on Thursday afternoon.
He was greeted at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka by General of the Army Waker-Uz-Zaman, certain student leaders and representatives of civil society.
At landing, he referred to the fact that Hasina had folded state institutions to her will, including security agencies. But he urged people not to take over.
“The restoration of the situation of the law and the order is our first job. We cannot take other measures until the situation of public order returns to normality,” said Yunus.
More than 108 people have been killed in new violence since Hasina decamped on Monday, after weeks of civilian troubles in which around 300 died.
The Bangladais had to find faith in independent state institutions – the faith they had lost during the 15 years of the continuous rule of Hasina, said Yunus on Wednesday.
“It is essential that confidence in the government is restored quickly,” Yunus said in a statement, according to the United Kingdom’s financial times.
“We need calm, we need a roadmap for new elections, and we have to go to work to prepare for a new leadership in order to achieve the extraordinary potential of Bangladesh.”
By welcoming those who had come to receive it, Yunus was visibly emotional when the students approached to shake their hands. With tears in his eyes, he ignored their tense hands and kissed them instead.
Bangladesh has the opportunity to start again thanks to the country’s university students, he told the airport on Thursday.
“Today is a glorious day for us … they [the students] Protected and gave this country a renaissance, “said Yunus after landing.
“We have to protect it,” he added.
Following the resignation of Hasina, the Student Move Against Discrimination group proposed that Yunus directs the interim government, a choice of observers from South Asian considered with approval because the Nobel Prize winner is respected in the country and abroad.
The students of the group led the initial demonstrations which became fatal when the security forces and the Awami League supporters joined the fray to try to disperse them. Violence has angry people on a national level and agitation has become a mass movement requiring Hasina’s resignation.
Benarnews spoke to certain newly named acting government members of what they believe should be the first priority of the administration.
Among the questions mentioned by Saleh Uddin Ahmed, former governor of the country’s central bank, was the economy.
“The first step will be to bring the law and the order to reactivate the slow economy, to work for the well-being of people and to resume the academic environment,” he told Benarnews.
Referring to the lost lives in recent weeks, the human rights activist, Adiluur Rahman Khan, said that there was a responsibility.
“We have taken this responsibility by standing in the blood. We have to ensure justice, we must TR with the public traitors in justice,” he said.
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Asif Mahmud, one of the two students appointed advisor on Thursday, said the interim government “reform” state institutions, would hold a free and fair general election and would put power to an elected government.
“But this will not be possible without reforms of institutions such as the electoral commission,” he told journalists after the oath ceremony outside the presidential palace.
Organizing fair elections “will not be possible without its reform,” said AIF.
According to the constitution of the country, an election must take place within 90 days of the dissolution of the Parliament. This occurred on Tuesday, August 6, which means that the interim government’s mandate should end in early November
But an American retired diplomat told Benarnews this week that it could be unrealistic-that is to say too short.
Hasina and her Awami League Festival had caused too much damage during her 15 consecutive years in power, said Jon Danilowicz, who served three assignments to Bangladesh.
“I do not think that we can say at this stage how long the country will take to be ready for an election. Given the degree to which the Awami league has politicized the administration, the security forces and the judiciary, the task of untangling everything that will be very difficult and to take a very long time,” he said.
“But without doing it, it will not be possible to hold free, fair and credible elections.”
Shailaja Neelakantan in Washington contributed to this Benarnews report, An online press organization affiliated with the FRG.