TDS Desk:

Former chief adviser Muhammad Yunus left his official residence during the interim government’s tenure, the state guest house Jamuna, this afternoon (28 February) for his own home in the capital’s Gulshan.

His motorcade included vehicles from the Special Security Force (SSF) along with other officials.

The convoy departed Jamuna and proceeded towards the InterContinental Dhaka intersection.

Yunus’s appointment as the chief adviser of the interim government followed the fall of the previous government.

On 5 August 2024, the Awami League government fell amid mass protests, and then prime minister Sheikh Hasina fled to India.

The following day, coordinators of the Anti-discrimination Student Movement requested Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus to head an interim government.

The decision followed a meeting between the student leaders, President Mohammed Shahabuddin and the chiefs of the three armed forces.

Yunus returned to Dhaka on 8 August 2024 and was sworn in the same day as chief adviser of the interim government. President Mohammed Shahabuddin administered the oath at Bangabhaban.

On 11 September 2024, Yunus announced six state reform commissions covering the Constitution, the Election Commission, the police, the judiciary, public administration and the Anti-Corruption Commission. The commissions were formally constituted in October that year.

On 17 October 2025, the National Consensus Commission and 24 political parties signed the July Charter, aimed at outlining reform commitments. Two more parties signed later, bringing the total number of signatories to 26.

The 13th National Election was held on 12 February 2026, in which the BNP secured a majority.

On 17 February 2026, BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman was sworn in as prime minister, and the interim government was dissolved.

Professor Yunus is Bangladesh’s only Nobel laureate and is internationally recognised as a social entrepreneur and economist.

He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honour in the United States.

He founded Grameen Bank in 1983, pioneering the microcredit model that provides small loans to the poor, particularly women.

The initiative later expanded globally and inspired similar programmes in more than 100 countries.

Born in Chattogram in 1940, Yunus completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Dhaka University before pursuing higher studies in the United States on a Fulbright scholarship. He obtained a PhD in economics from Vanderbilt University in 1969.

After returning to Bangladesh, he became head of the economics department at Chittagong University in the mid-1970s.

During that period, he began providing small loans to poor basket weavers, an initiative that later led to the establishment of Grameen Bank.