Bangladesh’s Nobel laureate, Muhammad Yunus, has been asked to lead the interim government following a political crisis that forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee the country on Monday. At 84, Yunus praised the student-led protests that had led to Hasina’s fall, calling it a ‘Second Victory Day’. He has been critical of Hasina’s strict rule over the past 15 years. He now takes charge after one of the deadliest protests in the nation’s history, which resulted in over 300 deaths and thousands of arrests.