DHAKA, Bangladesh — Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist, arrived in Dhaka on Thursday after weeks of student protests forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee to India.
“I feel good coming back home,” Yunus, 84, told reporters at Dhaka Airport upon his arrival from Paris, where he had been receiving medical treatment.
Yunus, Bangladesh’s only Nobel laureate and a vocal critic of Hasina, was recommended for the interim leadership role by the student protesters who led the campaign against the former prime minister.
He is expected to be sworn in as chief adviser later on Thursday, along with a team of advisers. The army chief indicated that the interim government might include 15 members.
