Bangladesh’s parliament has been dissolved, a day after longtime Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country after weeks of deadly unrest.
President Mohammed Shahabuddin has dissolved Parliament, a key demand of the student protesters.
“The president has dissolved parliament,” Shiplu Zaman, the president’s press secretary said in a statement.
Organisers of student-led protests are scheduled to meet army officials, insisting will not accept a military-led government.
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”.
A longtime opponent of the ousted leader, he was accused of corruption by her government and tried on charges he said were motivated by vengeance. He received the Nobel Prize in 2006 for his work pioneering microlending.
Nahid Islam, leader of Students Against Discrimination, said the protesters would propose more names for the cabinet and suggested that it would be difficult for those in power to ignore their wishes. (Al Jazeera)