Who will be in the interim govt

The interim government will comprise 17 members, with Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus serving as the Chief Adviser, according to officials from the Cabinet Division.

The other advisers are: Dr Saleh Uddin Ahmed, Dr Asif Nazrul, Adilur Rahman Khan, Hasan Ariff, Touhid Hossain, Syeda Rezwana Hasan, Md Nahid Islam, Asif Mahmud Sajeeb Bhuiyan, Brigadier General (retd) M Shakhawat Hossain, Supradip Chakma, Farida Akhter, Bidhan Chandra Roy, Dr AFM Khalid Hossain, Nurjahan Begum, Sharmin Murshid, and Faruk-e-Azam.

The interim government is set to take the oath at 8:00pm tonight.

Yunus was selected to lead the interim government following a meeting on Tuesday night between President Mohammed Shahabuddin and leaders of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, the group that spearheaded the recent uprising. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned on Monday afternoon and left the country amid the student-led movement demanding her government’s resignation.

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