Muhith draws more flak for Yunus
Finance Minister AMA Muhith today drew more flak for lauding Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus.
Two lawmakers, one from his own party – the Awami League – and the other from an allied party Workers Party, pulled up the minister at the parliament.
Terming Yunus “usurer” who “conspired” to stop the Padma bridge project, Workers Party MP Fazle Hossain Badsha said: “I can’t understand how someone can praise such a man like Yunus.”
He demanded that Minister Muhith immediately clears his “position on Yunus”.
Awami League MP Hasan Mahmud said he differed with Muhith’s statement on Yunus. “Micro credit has hardly had any positive impact to pull people out from poverty.”
Micro credit spread to Bangladesh after 1975 as some foreign businessmen planned to do it through some local people to keep the poor people within the chain of poverty,” he said.
The finance minister who was present at that time in parliament however didn’t make any comment.
Earlier, Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday censured Muhith for praising Yunus. Muhith had lauded Yunus for his “role in alleviating poverty”.
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