Bangladesh’s President Mohammed Shahabuddin dissolved the national parliament on Tuesday to pave way for an interim administration.
The move comes a day after longtime Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country following weeks of deadly unrest.
Local media reports indicate that more than 100 people have died in violent clashes across Bangladesh.
Meanwhile, organizers of student-led protests are scheduled to meet army officials, insisting they will not accept a military-led government.
A key organizer of Bangladesh’s student protests, Nahid Islam, has called for Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus to head an interim government.
Yunus, who is currently in Paris for the Olympics, called Hasina’s resignation the country’s “second liberation day”.
A longtime opponent of the ousted leader, he was accused of corruption by her government and tried on charges he said were motivated by vengeance.
He received the Nobel Prize in 2006 for his work pioneering microlending.
Student organizer Nahid Islam said the protesters would propose more names for the cabinet and suggested that it would be difficult for those in power to ignore their wishes. (Newswire/Al Jazeera)