Yunus on Sunday said he had received enough favourable responses to form a party to contest the next general elections. “I think the time has now come … We will have to move forward,” the United News of Bangladesh quoted him as saying. “It could be called ‘Citizen Power,”‘ Yunus said, adding that a formal announcement would made later this month.
Yunus said he will mobilise people in villages for his new party, which would promote the politics of unity. “We have had enough politics of disunity and divisions,” he said.
Bangladeshi politics has been wracked by corruption, violence, mismanagement and nepotism in recent decades.
Yunus’s new party would be an alternative to the country’s two main parties — the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the Awami League–that have held power alternately since democracy was restored in 1991. “We have had enough politics of disunity and divisions,” he said.
Bangladeshi politics has been wracked by corruption, violence, mismanagement and nepotism in recent decades.
Source: Daily Sun & Indian Express
In forming new party utmost care should be taken to see that no old wine in new bottle.
Not sure this news item has much validity – only one newspaper came out with scoop. However, what is interesting is that Yunus Centre has not denied this, so far. In case Prof Yunus does enter politics he must weigh his options very carefully. People are indeed looking for a new force in the political arena in Bangladesh – Yunus must opt for people and a party strategy that is clean in image and is intellectually secular but not lacking in religions and their moral underpinnings; patriotic and pragmatic at the same time; and visionary and yet sensitive to needs of the present.