Amid mounting dissatisfaction and political unpredictability in the South Asian nation, primary school teachers in Bangladesh joined public sector employees in protesting against the interim administration on Monday.
Last August, when then-prime minister Sheikh Hasina fled to India due to deadly student-led protests, 84-year-old Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus assumed the role of interim leader of the 173 million-person nation.
The military, political parties, teachers, and civil officials have all put pressure on Yunus’ administration as the interim government works to steer the nation through a precarious transition before a general election.
Outrage broke out throughout the bureaucracy on Sunday when the government approved an act enabling the Ministry of Public Administration to fire public employees for misbehavior without requiring drawn-out procedures.
