Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Thursday claimed Prof Amartya Sen told him that though Bangladesh had many big achievements those were not getting projected abroad because of Prof Muhammad Yunus.
Citing a recent meeting with Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, Muhith said, “Prof Sen told me that so many good works are being done in this country but those do not get highlighted anywhere in the world only because of Prof Yunus.”
On queries how an individual can do such a damage to a country, the finance minister said, “He has a wonderful publicity machinery.”
Muhith said this emerging from a review meeting on the Sixth Five-Year Plan at the auditorium of the National Economic Council (NEC) in the Planning ministry.
The finance minister also said, “There is no complete honesty in what he (Prof Yunus) says.”
Muhith also said Grameen Bank is his (Prof Yunus’s) organization. He does not want leave at in any way.
Source: The Daily Star
It would be worthwhile for Bangladesh Chronicle to contact Mr. Amartya Sen and to know what he actually told Mr.Muhith about Dr.Yunus. The readers will remain indebted for this service
The comments attributed to Prof Amartya Sen by Mr Muhit about Prof Yunus are unbelievable.
I thought Amartya Sen is a learned and sophisticated person, respectful to other equally dignified persons. If the comments he is said to have made about Prof Yunus are correct, Prof Sen should present concrete evidence to the alleged anti-Bangladesh activities of Prof Yunus, otherwise he should apologise to Prof Yunus and the people of Bangladesh.
Mr Muhit is an educated person, unlike many of our politicians who are often very rude and uncultured. It is very sad that after he became Sheikh Hasina’s finance minister, he has been behaving as a clown and talking ‘rubbish’ on various issues. He has presided over the largest financial scandals in the history of Bangladesh. He is probably too old for his brain to think in a rational and constructive way.
Not accepting one’s own faults and responsibilities, but trying to blame others for the failures is not acceptable.
I doubt, if there are political leaders in the world that derives perverted pleasure in denouncing a noble laureate of their own country! It’s disgusting and shameful.
Dr. Yunus is probably the only one from Bangladesh who is well respected throughout the world and has given some credibility to that god forsaken country run by crooks, thieves and morons (from your Prime Minister all the way down to the MPs. Oh yeah, do not forget the “Home Office” ,”Under Secretaries” and “Joint-Secretaries”). Get your act together and move forward you freaking idiots.
Bangladeshis have to rise above this low level nuisance. Muhith does not know what he is talking about lately. He is desperately trying to please Hasina. Hasina has a grudge against anyone who gets famous. She cannot stand a successful Bangladeshi rising above the standard she claims for herself and her family.
On the flip side, the other lady is quiet too. She also sees a threat in Dr. Yunus. Like Yaclev Havel of Czechoslovakia, Yunus could fill the political vacuum Bangladesh is going through. Both of these ladies are harming Bangladesh. Then there is another group working behind the scenes. The top 12 businessmen who control all the money and thus both political machines. It is like catch 22.
How do you get rid of this cancer? People have to rise up and demand justice and respect. Maligning Yunus is a national disgrace.