President dissolved parliament after protests forced resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus waves as he leaves his residence to attend the oath taking ceremony in Dhaka / Photo: Reuters
It came after weeks of protests which led to the fall of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Awami League government. Army chief Gen. Waker-Uz-Zaman had announced the formation of a transitional government after Hasina fled to India, where she is currently."Bangladesh has started a new victory day. We have to move on. We are thankful to those who did it, they saved the country,” Yunus said after landing in Dhaka.
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