DHAKA — Bangladesh's interim government is launching a “groundbreaking” overhaul of its electoral system, judiciary and other key institutions, pushing for major reforms after a student-led uprising toppled Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
The plan, announced late Wednesday by the Nobel Prize-winning head of the interim government, Muhammad Yunus, was welcomed in some quarters more than a month after Hasina fled amid social unrest and protests that left more than 600 people dead and thousands more. injured.