AL conspiring to loot assets of Grameen (Bank)
The Awami League government is hatching a “conspiracy” to “loot” the assets of Grameen Bank worth Tk 8,000 crore by splitting the bank into 19 pieces.
Bikolpodhara Bangladesh President AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury made the observation at a joint press conference after exchanging views with the GB founder Dr Muhammad Yunus at the city’s Yunus Centre yesterday.
“Your (government) time is over. Give up the plan of splitting Grameen Bank,” he said.
The BDB would always stay beside Grameen Bank, Badruddoza assured Yunus.
He hoped that the government would refrain from splitting the microfinance institution.
Blasting the government for harassing the Nobel laureate, the former president said, “It was Prof Yunus who first called upon the international community not to brand Bangladesh a poor country.”
Replying to a query, Badruddoza said an unconstitutional government might take over the country if the next election is not held in due time under a non-partisan government.The restoration of caretaker government system could only ensure the next parliamentary polls, he observed.
In his speech, Prof Yunus said the country’s poor women owned 90 percent share of Grameen Bank.
“It will bring no good for the government if it wants to grab those women’s property,” said Yunus.
He urged the people to save the bank from the government’s conspiracy to nationalise it.
He also thanked the BDB leaders for expressing their solidarity with the GB.
http://www.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/al-conspiring-to-loot-assets-of-grameen/
The Awami League government is hatching a “conspiracy” to “loot” the assets of Grameen Bank worth Tk 8,000 crore by splitting the bank into 19 pieces.
Bikolpodhara Bangladesh President AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury made the observation at a joint press conference after exchanging views with the GB founder Dr Muhammad Yunus at the city’s Yunus Centre yesterday.
“Your (government) time is over. Give up the plan of splitting Grameen Bank,” he said.
The BDB would always stay beside Grameen Bank, Badruddoza assured Yunus.
He hoped that the government would refrain from splitting the microfinance institution.
Blasting the government for harassing the Nobel laureate, the former president said, “It was Prof Yunus who first called upon the international community not to brand Bangladesh a poor country.”
Replying to a query, Badruddoza said an unconstitutional government might take over the country if the next election is not held in due time under a non-partisan government.The restoration of caretaker government system could only ensure the next parliamentary polls, he observed.
In his speech, Prof Yunus said the country’s poor women owned 90 percent share of Grameen Bank.
“It will bring no good for the government if it wants to grab those women’s property,” said Yunus.
He urged the people to save the bank from the government’s conspiracy to nationalise it.
He also thanked the BDB leaders for expressing their solidarity with the GB.
http://www.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/al-conspiring-to-loot-assets-of-grameen/