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If the people of Bangladesh want short-term reforms, elections will be held at the end of this year, and if long-term reforms, elections will be held after another six months. The unprecedented corruption and nepotism of the Awami League government should be documented and can be the subject of research. Making these comments in a dialogue at the World Economic Forum conference, Chief Advisor Dr. Muhammad Yunus said that the biggest feature of the July mass uprising was the overall change in society.

Dr. Muhammad Yunus, Chief Advisor to the interim government, spoke at a solo event organized by Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum, at the World Economic Forum conference in Davos, Switzerland. At the beginning of the event, the Chief Advisor told how he got the responsibility of running the state.

He said, “My first response was no, sorry to you. But they will not give up. Finally i said, take time, find it, see, people around you. I’m sure, you will have lots of options for you. No, without found any options, so you are go on. That’s how i got, involved there.”

At the event, the chief advisor detailed the misdeeds of the previous autocratic government and said that there needs to be a separate record of the unprecedented corruption and nepotism of the Awami League government and that research should be done on it.

Then Dr. Yunus spoke about the repression of the previous government, saying that he himself was preparing to go to jail at that time. He said that his family had also forbidden him from returning home from Paris. At that time, he spoke about the Reform Commission and the July Charter. He said that reforms will be made based on the recommendations of the commissions. If the people wanted short-term reforms, the elections will be held at the end of this year, and if they want long-term reforms, the elections will be held after another six months.

The chief advisor said that he has no end to his hopes for the young generation. He said that he is in favor of the minimum voting age being 16. There is no difference between 16 and 18 years in terms of representation. Calling the current education system flawed, he said that even if one is currently prepared for a job, this generation is entrepreneurs.

The biggest feature of the July uprising was the overall change in society, the head of the interim government commented.

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