A citizens' platform has asked the prime minister and her cabinet members not to call Muhammad Yunus 'interest taker', as they themselves take interest.
The platform—Citizens' Committee to Preserve the Honour of Bangladesh and Nobel Peace Laureate Dr Yunus—organised a discussion titled 'Dr Muhammad Yunus and the Current Situation of Bangladesh' at Diploma Engineers' Institute in the city on Sunday.
Committee member Zafarullah Chowdhury, apparently pointing finger at the prime minister, said, "Don't call Dr Yunus an interest taker…this lowers his as well as country's image."
Calling the prime minister an 'interest taker', Zafarullah said, "There are bribe and interest takers in your (Hasina) own party," he alleged.
Another member of the committee Nurul Islam alleged that the government was playing a game with Yunus, so as to 'loot Grameen Bank just as they did with Adamjee Jute Mills'.
He also alleged that India's Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) was behind the current incidents happening to the bank and Yunus.
Former caretaker government advisors Mirza Azizul Islam, Hossain Zillur Rahman and Rasheda K Chowdhury were also expected to attend the discussion. But they did not show up.
Regarding their failure to turn up, convenor A B M Mostafa Amin told reporters, "It is not important who came and who didn't."
He told bdnews24.com: "I've heard that many returned from the door [of the auditorium] as it was closed. I don't know whether the invited guests were among them."
thanks to (bdnews24.com)
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