By Ruma Paul and Krishna N. Das
Soft-spoken student leads campaign to oust Hasina in Bangladesh!
DHAKA, Aug 6 (Reuters) – Nahid Islam, a soft-spoken sociology student often seen in public with a Bangladeshi flag on his forehead, led the protest that toppled Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after 15 years in power.
Islam, 26, was the coordinator of a student movement against government job quotas that escalated into an Old Hasina campaign. He rose to national prominence in mid-July after police arrested him and several other students at Dhaka University as protests turned deadly.
Nearly 300 people, many of them students, were killed in weeks of violence in the country, which only subsided after Hasina stepped down on Monday and fled to neighboring India.
