DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Bangladesh's main opposition party was holding a public rally in the nation's capital Wednesday as the country was preparing to form an interim government led by a Nobel laureate, after a mass uprising that left hundreds of people dead and forced the former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to step down and flee the country.
Bangladesh’s main opposition holds a public rally as an interim government is being outlined
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Bangladesh's main opposition party was holding a public rally in the nation's capital Wednesday as the country was preparing to form an interim government led by a Nobel laureate, after a mass uprising that left hundreds of people dead and forced the former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to step down and flee the country.
The student leaders, who organized the weeks of mass protests, said they would unveil a full list of the new Cabinet on Wednesday. The streets of Bangladesh were calm after reports of violence against supporters of Hasina, police and minority communities which followed soon after she fled to India.
The rally by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party - led by former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, Hasina's archrival - came a day after her release from house arrest, amid a new political environment in the country.
Zia's freedom is largely symbolic as the ailing leader has been staying outside the prison under an executive order of the former government but was not allowed to travel abroad. Her son and the acting head of the party, Tarique Rahman, is expected to address the crowd online from his home in London, where he has been living in exile since 2008. He faces several criminal cases.