According to the Bangladesh national-daily Daily Star, Nahid Islam, a prominent figure in the movement, mentioned that Prof Yunus accepted the role at the behest of the students to “save the country”.
Yunus gained international fame in 2006 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for his pioneering work in microcredit and microfinance.
Meanwhile, after the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin ordered immediate release of former PM and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia, who is currently imprisoned.78-year-old Khaleda Zia was jailed in 2018 after she was sentenced to 17 years in prison in a graft case.
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