Dhaka, Oct. 13 -- National Citizen Party (NCP) Convenor Nahid Islam has demanded "effective" government steps to ensure the security of former chief advisor Muhammad Yunus and all other members of the previous interim government.

He made the demand in a statement on Tuesday, saying the interim government had steered Bangladesh through a time of crisis, leading the push to "restore democracy and rebuild an economy reduced to rubble".

Yunus, a Nobel laureate, came under fire while leaving New York's John F Kennedy International Airport in a wheelchair at 3:45pm local time on Monday.

Lamiya Morshed, the former interim government's principal coordinator for SDG affairs and executive director of the Yunus Centre, was beside him, carrying lu...