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Who’s Muhammad Yunus, head of Bangladesh’s new caretaker authorities?

Bangladeshi Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, a well known critic and political opponent of Sheikh Hasina, has been appointed as the brand new head of the caretaker authorities in Bangladesh following Hasina’s ouster.

The appointment is available in response to calls for from protesting pupil leaders and army in addition to civil society members to nominate Yunus because the interim head to information Bangladesh in the direction of stability till elections will be held.

Yunus, born in 1940 in Chattogram, based the ‘Grameen Financial institution’ in 1983, a micro-finance establishment that has helped raise hundreds of thousands out of poverty. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in 2006.

After saying plans to kind a political get together in 2007, Yunus confronted political backlash, investigations, and was faraway from the Grameen Financial institution in 2011.

In January, Yunus was sentenced to 6 months in jail by a courtroom on prices of labour regulation violations.

On June tenth, a Dhaka courtroom prosecuted Yunus and 13 others for embezzlement, rejecting a plea for dismissal of prices from the accused.

Yunus has described Hasina as a ‘dictator’, and accused her of destroying her father’s legacy.

He referred to her resignation as Bangladesh’s “second liberation day.” The 83-year previous economist assumes cost at a time when Bangladesh is grappling with one among its worst crises in a long time.

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