Monday twenty fourth February, 2025 06:00 PM|
Bangladeshi college students, who had been on the forefront of final yr’s protests that ousted then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, are set to launch a political occasion this week, two sources with direct information of the event stated.
The Students Against Discrimination (SAD) group spearheaded the protests that started as a student-led motion towards public sector job quotas however rapidly morphed right into a broader, nationwide rebellion that pressured Hasina to flee to India because the unrest peaked in early August.
The pupil group is finalising plans to launch the brand new occasion, throughout an occasion possible on Wednesday, stated the sources who didn’t wish to be named as they don’t seem to be authorised to talk to the media.
Nahid Islam, a pupil chief and adviser to the interim authorities that took cost of Bangladesh after Hasina’s exit, is predicted to steer the occasion as convener, the sources stated.
Islam has been a key determine in advocating for pupil pursuits inside the interim authorities, led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, which has been on the helm of Bangladesh since August 2024. He is predicted to resign from his present position to concentrate on main the brand new political occasion.
Islam didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Yunus has stated that elections might be held by the tip of 2025, and lots of political analysts consider {that a} youth-led occasion may considerably reshape the nation’s political panorama. Yunus has stated he was not excited by operating.
Yunus’ workplace didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon the launch of the student-led political occasion.
The South Asian nation has been grappling with political unrest since Hasina left following weeks of protests throughout which greater than 1,000 individuals had been killed.
Officials from Hasina’s former authorities and safety equipment systematically dedicated critical human rights violations towards the protesters through the rebellion, the U.N. human rights fee stated this month.
Hasina and her occasion deny any wrongdoing.