It seems the students' set-up in Bangladesh's interim government under Muhammad Yunus, the members of which he once hailed as the "brains" of the July-August uprising , is now collapsing like a deck of cards. The Yunus-led interim administration has asked two of the advisors from the student agitation to step down from their ministerial posts, reported Dhaka-based daily Prothom Alo.

This comes after fierce opposition to the student leaders by the principal opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), and its former ally, Jamaat-e-Islami, over their suspected bias for the National Citizen Party (NCP).

The NCP was formed by Nahid Islam, another anti-Hasina agitation leader, who stepped down in February. He became the convener of the newly launched NCP, formed by the studen

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