PM invitations Yunus to a debate together with her – Bd24live

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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as we speak invited Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus to hitch a debate together with her, saying that Younus obtained probably the most profit from her and is now pursuing a propaganda in opposition to her utilizing the cash he amassed illegally.

“There may be nothing to be jealous of. He might come and have a debate with me as is completed within the USA,” she stated.

The Prime Minister was replying to a query at a press convention held at her official Ganabhaban residence right here to make public the result of her current two-day state go to to India.

Concerning the Time Journal column in opposition to her, she stated Dr Yunus has been utilizing his illegally earned cash to put in writing in opposition to her.

Earlier an announcement of a number of Nobel laureates was launched which was an commercial.

“If he’s a lot in style why he needed to publish an commercial?” she questioned. Individuals from throughout the globe ought to have talked in favour of him, however none got here ahead to speak for him, she added.

Mentioning that Yunus obtained probably the most monetary and different advantages from her, she stated, “It’s true, we promoted him very a lot.”

The Prime Minister stated she has no comparability with Dr Yunus as he’s a businessman.

“Sheikh Hasina feels no jealousy with anybody. Sheikh Hasina is the daughter of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. None can come up at the least this place. I really feel happy with it,” she stated.

She went on saying that prime ministership is a short lived factor.

Being a politician, the premier stated, she at all times protects the curiosity of the nation and its folks.

“I by no means promote the nation or the pursuits of the nation (to anybody),” she stated.

Sheikh Hasina stated she promoted the micro credit score thought at dwelling and overseas considering it was a very good transfer to alleviate poverty.

She stated she regularly realized that the micro credit score has been nurturing the poverty.

Yunus is now blaming her probably the most even though she helped the Grameen Financial institution survive by giving Tk 400 crore in three phases, Sheikh Hasina stated.

The Prime Minister stated she even gave Yunus the enterprise of Grameen Telephone in partnership with Telenor as he pledged to run the financial institution with the cash of phone enterprise.

However, he didn’t give a single penny to the financial institution from the enterprise of Grameen Telephone, she stated.

The Premier stated Yunus didn’t use the international donation he obtained for the Grameen Financial institution for its survival.

In each case, he used the cash for enterprise objective and didn’t give the taxes in opposition to the enterprise, she stated.

Each time circumstances have been lodged in opposition to him for dodging taxes, Yunus paid some cash as taxes and thus he proved that he evaded taxes.

Yunus did enterprise with the welfare fund of the Grameen Financial institution staff and didn’t pay any cash to the labourers since 2006, although it’s a should to offer 5 p.c curiosity in opposition to the fund.

The Grameen Financial institution staff had filed a case in opposition to Yunus on the Labour courtroom and he was convicted within the case.

“What’s my fault right here?” she stated.

The federal government didn’t file the case moderately Yunus had filed two separate circumstances in opposition to the federal government and Bangladesh Financial institution and he misplaced within the circumstances, she stated.

Sheikh Hasina questioned what motion the USA and European international locations would take if anybody evades taxes years after years and if anybody embezzles the cash of the Labour welfare fund and doesn’t pay the dues of the employees.

She stated Grameen Financial institution was established in the course of the regime of Normal Ershad and Dr Yunus was made its Managing Director. “However he didn’t set up this financial institution himself,” she added.

She stated he used to do a job because the managing director and drew the wage on the financial institution which is a statutory authority.

The wage and different issues have been offered from the federal government, she continued.

However a marketing campaign was run in such a means as if he (Dr Yunus) had established this financial institution, she stated.

Noting that his microcredit scheme was not acceptable, she stated the folks needed to pay upto 40-45 p.c curiosity for loans below his microcredit scheme.

She questioned why poverty was not alleviated together with his microcredit scheme within the nation when it was so efficient.

“It’s I who alleviated poverty in Bangladesh. I introduced down the poverty fee to 18.7 p.c from 41.6 in solely 15 years,” stated the premier.

Sheikh Hasina stated she has no battle with anybody and by no means has a need to get a Nobel Prize.

Citing her position for the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord 1997, Sheikh Hasina stated it was a novel peace accord as some 1800 armed individuals surrendered and submitted their arms.

She stated many famous personalities at dwelling and overseas wrote for giving her the Nobel Prize after the peace accord, however she by no means went to inform them such, she stated.

“When the MD of a financial institution obtains a Nobel prize, why would I am going to contest with him,” she stated.

The Prime Minister stated Yunus wished to enter into politics in 2007, however he didn’t get any response from the plenty as folks have been below great stress of pursuits of loans taken from the Grameen Financial institution.

She requested the media to unearth the place are the individuals who obtained loans from the Grameen Financial institution at a programme in Jeshore in presence of Hilary Clinton.

They’ve to depart the localities promoting their belongings and plenty of of them dedicated suicide below the stress of paying the curiosity of mortgage.

AL Normal Secretary and Highway Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader, Presidium Members, Deputy Chief of the Home Begum Matia Chowdhury, Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim and Kazi Zafarullah, Joint Normal Secretary and International Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud and PM’s Non-public Trade and Funding Adviser Salman Fazlur Rahman, shared the dais with the Premier.

PM’s Press Secretary M Nayeemul Islam Khan moderated the press convention.