A key organizer of Bangladesh’s student protests, Nahid Islam, has called for Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus to head an interim government.
DHAKA: Bangladesh’s president Mohammed Shahabuddin dissolved the parliament on Tuesday afternoon following the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday.
Earlier, the Students Against Discrimination set an ultimatum to dissolve the parliament by 3:00 pm today.
The President also ordered the release of Begum Khaleda Zia, former PM and leader of the main opposition Party Bangladesh Nationalist, from years of House arrest.
“She is now freed”, a Bangladesh National Party (BNP) party spokesman, A.K.M Wahiduzzaman, told the news agency.
The press release issued from the President’s residence, Bangabhaban, stated, “Based on the decision from a meeting of President Shahabuddin with the heads of the three armed forces, leaders of various political parties, representatives of civil society, and leaders of the Students Against Discrimination movement, the national parliament has been dissolved”.
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It also said that the process of releasing those detained in the student movement and various cases from July 1 to August 5 has begun, with many already being freed.
A key organizer of Bangladesh’s student protests, Nahid Islam, has called for Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus to head an interim government. Yunus, who is currently in Paris for the Olympics, called Hasina’s resignation the country’s “second liberation day”.
