AL conspiring to loot assets of Grameen (Bank)

[idune]

Dr. Muhammad Yunus speach - YouTube

 

[idune]

Don’t recast Grameen Bank: US senators

Dhaka : Thirty two members of the US Congress and forty prominent personalities from around the globe in two separate open letters to the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina appealed not to implement the recommendations of the government-appointed Commission on restructuring the Grameen Bank.

Implementation of the recommendations would affect the Grameen Bank and its associate organisations’ effort in eradicating poverty, they stated in the open letters.

According to US-based news magazine Bloomberg, sixteen senators and equal number of lawmakers in the House of Representatives had urged the Bangladesh government to refrain from implementing the commission’s recommendation to restructure the microfinance bank.

They felt that restructuring would diminish the power of the borrowers and share holders, who played a vital role in the success of the bank.

Senators Barbara Boxer, Michael Enzi, Mark R Warner, Tim Johnson and House of Representatives’ Rosa L DeLauro, Keith Ellison, Joseph Crowley, Erik Paulsen and Jim McDermott are among the signatories to the letter.

“As Members of the United States Congress, we write to urge you to reject the recent recommendations of the Grameen Bank Commission that would jeopardise the role Grameen Bank has played in the critical fight to end poverty in Bangladesh,” they said in the letter.

Stating that both Bangladesh and the international community have a compelling interest in the safety and soundness of Grameen Bank, the signatories to the letter said they were “profoundly troubled by recent proposals that would fundamentally alter the future of this Nobel Prize-winning institution.”

A similar appeal was made to the Prime Minister in another open letter written by several prominent citizens of US and other countries. Signatories include Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former US Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright, former Prime Minister of Norway Gro Harlem Brundtland, former President of Peru Alejandro Toledo, the President of the Washington-based Robert F Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights Kerry Kennedy and Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson.

In the letter sent to Bloomberg the signatories lauded the role of Hasina in safeguarding the interest and business of the Grameen Bank. However, they added that the commission has not shown the same concern for the well-being of the institution.

“We believe that it and its members are attempting to mislead your government and this is putting the Bangladeshi people and their well-wishers to a great risk.”

They appealed to the Prime Minister to prevent the ruin of the bank by rejecting the Commission’s recommendations.

The letter further said the Prime Minister and her Finance Ministry have the power and right to reject the recommendations as implementing them would be disastrous.

Abul Kalam Azad, Hasina’s Press Secretary, said he wasn’t aware of the letter when Bloomberg reached him on his mobile phone.

On the other hand a director of the Grameen Bank Tahsina Khatun said it was 'good news' for the bank.

“It’s good news that global leaders are on our side. I hope the government will listen to them. We have tried to convince the government to let Grameen Bank be as it is,” she told Bloomberg.

Don?t recast Grameen Bank: US senators

 

[idune]

Now Awami League is labeling Dr. Yunus as Jamaat and called for Shabah style gathering to demand punishment against Dr. Yunus. This is another of indo Awami League shahbagi model of kangaroo justice.



ড. ইউনূসের বিচারের দাবিতে ৩১ অক্টোবর রাজধানীতে মহাসমাবেশ | national | sheershanews | popular bangla online newspaper

 

[TopCat]

it should be made a proper institution with eminent people made trustee, yunus ran it for too long. Does govt have share in it? How much contribution did govt make when it was established.

BD does not have eminent people except Hasina.. Ask her to retire from politics and take over Grameen

 

[Luffy 500]

Now Awami League is labeling Dr. Yunus as Jamaat and called for Shabah style gathering to demand punishment against Dr. Yunus. This is another of indo Awami League shahbagi model of kangaroo justice.



ড. ইউনূসের বিচারের দাবিতে ৩১ অক্টোবর রাজধানীতে মহাসমাবেশ | national | sheershanews | popular bangla online newspaper

The awami maggot shamim afjal should be lynched along with all the awami scumbags once they are ousted from power. Manush na ekta awami leaguer.

 

[idune]

Now Awami League finance minister calling Dr. Yunus "terrorist. Indian sponsored Awami League labeling of people gone for epic direction.

http://www.rtnn.net//newsdetail/detail/1/3/72106

 

[Zabaniyah]

Muhith even called Dr. Yunus a "terrorist"

Dr Yunus is now talking like a terror: Muhith

DHAKA : Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Wednesday said, “He (Noble Laureate Dr Yunus) is an envoy of peace but he is now talking like a terror.''

The finance minister said this after a meeting of the cabinet committee on purchase, held at the conference room of the cabinet division in the secretariat.

Muhith said that Dr Yunus is now a fulltime politician and he is now doing politics.
The finance minister informed that the proposed Grameen Bank law is likely to be placed at the current session of the parliament.

“The government is going ahead to its own course on Grameen Bank and the authorities have already completed the task of preparing the rules of the bank,” he said.

Reply to a question, the finance minister apprehended that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is likely to be declined this fiscal year.

The minister said that the meeting of the cabinet committee on purchase and the economic affairs are likely to be held until last week of November this year but new project would not be allowed.

The senior minister claimed that the process of the government purchase was very transparent and nobody can not file cases against the authorities concerned after tenure of the government.

http://www.theindependentbd.com/ind...or-muhith&catid=187:online-edition&Itemid=223

 

[shiv]

grameen bank must be sponsoring terrorism in BD otherwise why would a respected Awami League partymen talk like that !!

 

[Zabaniyah]

grameen bank must be sponsoring terrorism in BD otherwise why would a respected Awami League partymen talk like that !!

Proof of the bolded part please. Otherwise, avoid such nonsensical posts.

 

[shiv]

Proof of the bolded part please. Otherwise, avoid such nonsensical posts.

no bud ! I didn't accuse him but was merely lending credence to claim based on a senior party member's claim !!

 

[Zabaniyah]

no bud ! I didn't accuse him but was merely lending credence to claim based on a senior party member's claim !!

By agreeing with them, you are accusing him of such.

That "terrorist" received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal (the first Muslim to get that achievement). Does that make the United States a terrorist nation? Your logic does imply that.

Try to at least do some basic research before embarrassing yourselves.

 

[idune]

Fact of the matter is without indian backing Awami League would not have dared to attack Dr. Yunus and Grameen bank. India, for its part does not want any Bangladeshi have direct access to world power corridors in Washington and in Europe. Indians wanted Banagladesh foreign relation to be conducted under their control instead of independently and they have largely been successful on their agenda convincing US. That is why US other than providing lip service did not take CONCRETE ACTION to subdue Indo-Awami attack on Dr. Yunus. Since, 1/11 interim regime, US policy aganda on Bangladesh had been hijacked by India; rather than having independent Bangladesh policy and action, US taking policy decision through India. WikilLeaks cables and recent US ambassador visit to Delhi for consultation on Bangladesh matter with Indian officials, makes it plenty clear how US stacked Bangladesh (attack on Yunus/Greameen bank) on relational order.

From recent vocal reaction of Dr. Yunus one thing became clear that he realizes lack of US action and reason. That is why he opted to stand up on his own with grassroot support and with real owners of Grameen bank.

 

[kalu_miah]

Fact of the matter is without indian backing Awami League would not have dared to attack Dr. Yunus and Grameen bank. India, for its part does not want any Bangladeshi have direct access to world power corridors in Washington and in Europe. Indians wanted Banagladesh foreign relation to be conducted under their control instead of independently and they have largely been successful on their agenda convincing US. That is why US other than providing lip service did not take CONCRETE ACTION to subdue Indo-Awami attack on Dr. Yunus. Since, 1/11 interim regime, US policy aganda on Bangladesh had been hijacked by India; rather than having independent Bangladesh policy and action, US taking policy decision through India. WikilLeaks cables and recent US ambassador visit to Delhi for consultation on Bangladesh matter with Indian officials, makes it plenty clear how US stacked Bangladesh (attack on Yunus/Greameen bank) on relational order.

From recent vocal reaction of Dr. Yunus one thing became clear that he realizes lack of US action and reason. That is why he opted to stand up on his own with grassroot support and with real owners of Grameen bank.

Agreed on this one as well. Again it is related to Dumbo Obama's stupid Pivot to Asia plan, a guy who could not get a website properly made, being the President of the most powerful country on earth.

 

[kalu_miah]

By agreeing with them, you are accusing him of such.

That "terrorist" received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal (the first Muslim to get that achievement). Does that make the United States a terrorist nation? Your logic does imply that.

Try to at least do some basic research before embarrassing yourselves.

To get their attention and respect, you will need to ban them left and right on the slightest excuse, following the forum rules of course. Only then this nation of autistic people will pay a little attention before making their meaningless posts.

 

[Zabaniyah]

Fact of the matter is without indian backing Awami League would not have dared to attack Dr. Yunus and Grameen bank. India, for its part does not want any Bangladeshi have direct access to world power corridors in Washington and in Europe. Indians wanted Banagladesh foreign relation to be conducted under their control instead of independently and they have largely been successful on their agenda convincing US. That is why US other than providing lip service did not take CONCRETE ACTION to subdue Indo-Awami attack on Dr. Yunus. Since, 1/11 interim regime, US policy aganda on Bangladesh had been hijacked by India; rather than having independent Bangladesh policy and action, US taking policy decision through India. WikilLeaks cables and recent US ambassador visit to Delhi for consultation on Bangladesh matter with Indian officials, makes it plenty clear how US stacked Bangladesh (attack on Yunus/Greameen bank) on relational order.

From recent vocal reaction of Dr. Yunus one thing became clear that he realizes lack of US action and reason. That is why he opted to stand up on his own with grassroot support and with real owners of Grameen bank.

Pretty much sums it up.

Agreed on this one as well. Again it is related to Dumbo Obama's stupid Pivot to Asia plan, a guy who could not get a website properly made, being the President of the most powerful country on earth.

He couldn't make it to the Asian Summit due to the budget issue. But then, he can increase US naval presence in the Indian Ocean!