How is Bangladesh’s interim government doing after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had fled?
There is cautious optimism as Bangladesh grapples with the aftermath of its student-led protests. Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus now leads a hopeful interim government tasked with securing elections. Will Bangladesh achieve true stability, or will a tumultuous political saga enter a new phase?Bangladesh’s new leader is clear: this was not his revolution, and this was not his dream.
But Muhammad Yunus knew the second he took the call from the student on the other end of the phone last week that he would do whatever it took to see it through.
And the students had decided that what they needed was for Prof Yunus – an 84-year-old Nobel laureate – to step into the power vacuum left by the sudden resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and lead the new interim government. He accepted immediately.
“I’m doing this because this is what the youth of the country wanted, and I wanted to help them to do it,” he explains during a private briefing for select journalists at his office in the Jamuna State House.
“It’s not my dream, it’s their dream. So I’m kind of helping them to make it come true.”
Prof Yunus was sworn in on Thursday after months of student-led protests culminated in the fall of the government, and is still trying to gauge the scale of the job in front of him.
Most pressing, he says, is the security situation. In the wake of the violence which left more than 400 dead, the South Asian country’s police had all but disappeared – the country’s police union had announced a strike, and traffic was being guided by the students, while hundreds of police stations had been gutted by fires.“Law and order is the first one so that people can sit down or get to work,” Prof Yunus says.
Monday saw the first glimmers of progress as officers returned to the streets. It is a first step, but security is far from the only problem.
The government entirely “disappeared” after Sheikh Hasina fled the country, Prof Yunus says.
What was left behind after 15 years of increasingly authoritarian rule is “a mess, complete mess”.
“Even the government, what they did, whatever they did, just simply doesn’t make sense to me… They didn’t have any idea what administration is all about.”
And yet in the face of the chaos is “lots of hope”, Prof Yunus emphasises.
“We are here: a fresh new face for them, for the country… Because finally, this moment, the monster is gone. So this is excitement.”
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