Dhaka, Feb. 27 -- The student group in Bangladesh that led the uprising to oust former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in August last year, will launch a new political party on Friday to "fulfill the aspiration of new Bangladesh," organizers of the group have said.

Nahid Islam, one of the key leaders of the group, resigned from Muhammad Yunus's interim government to lead the new political party, that will start its journey from a "grand rally" at Manik Mia Avenue, south of the parliament building in the capital Dhaka, they said.

Samanta Shermeen, Spokesperson of Jatio Nagorik Committee, a platform of the student group said, "After the July 2024 uprising, new hopes and aspirations that have been born in Bangladesh, In view of those hopes an...