P. K. Balachandran
Nobel Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the de facto Prime Minister of Bangladesh, enjoys popular acclaim. But he is also subjected to great expectations from Bangladesh’s 172 million people who had suffered political and economic deprivation for a decade and a half under Sheikh Hasina’s tutelage.
Restoration of law and order will of course be the most urgent task. Rules and regulations governing politics, administration and the running of the economy, will also have to formulated quickly and to the satisfaction of the powerful students’ coordinating committee.
Writing in The Daily Star, the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression Irene Khan warned that as the Arab Spring had shown, failure to meet the expectations of the protestors could pull back the Bangladeshi struggle for democracy by decades.
“The selection, prioritisation and delivery of those reforms will determine whether this moment in our country’s history is a new dawn or a false one,” Khan, who is a Bangladeshi, said.
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