Dhaka, Jan. 30 -- Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus has indicated that students in Bangladesh might form their own political party.

"This is a good time because I'm always protecting the unity of the nation. I do not want to depart from that. One of the possibility is that the students themselves will form a party," he said while speaking on the "Rachman Review" podcast, hosted by Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs commentator of the Financial Times

Yunus acknowledged the potential challenges ahead for the students too. "Maybe in the process of forming a party, they will fall apart. That's also a danger because politics is getting in, and all the politicians will penetrate into them. So we don't know whether they can remove themselves fro...