Dhaka, Broadcasting News Corporation: The country’s interim government is expected to be sworn in on Thursday evening with Nobel Laureate Professor Dr Mohammad Yunus as its head, Army Chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman told a media briefing at Dhaka Cantonment in the capital. “The swearing-in ceremony is expected to be held thursday night at Bangabhaban,” he said adding Prof Yunus was set to return home on Thursday afternoon when “I will receive him” and the ceremony would be held at around 8 PM at Bangabhaban. Zaman said the interim cabinet or council of advisers would be formed with around 15 members with Yunus being the Chief Adviser, a position equivalent to prime minister, but preferred not to elaborate on the issue as “it has not been formalised yet”.
The army chief said he had talks with Yunus over phone shortly before appearing before the media this afternoon as he was on his way back home from Paris in an Emirates airlines flight adding that “I felt very good” and expected the upcoming administration under him would carry forward Bangladesh to a brighter future.