Bangladesh Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus on Sunday made a foray into politics making a formal launch of his 'Nagorik Shakti (citizen's strength)' party.
DHAKA: Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus has finally decided to join active politics under a new-era party, which he named ‘Nagorik Shakti’ (Citizens’ Power) but a formal decision about the name would be made this month.
“I think the situation has now come to such a pass, there is no scope for backtracking…We will have to move forward,” he told reporters at the Zia International Airport in Dhaka on his return from a two-day visit to southeastern port city of Chittagong, from where he hailed and then rose to world fame.
He disclosed his party-building plan that envisages organising people from villages by forming 20-member preparatory teams who will identify themselves as ‘Yunus Samarthok Gosthi (Yunus Fans’ Club)’.
The winner of Nobel Peace Prize for his micro-credit innovations said that, basically, the members of his planned party would work like “volunteers” who would bear the expenses from their own money for electing a representative of their own. “If local people want to see good people elected, they will have to spend their own money. You will not get good people in your own area by spending other’s money,” he said.
In response to Awami League president Sheikh Hasina’s indirect criticism against Yunus for floating a political party, he retorted: “They will make their comment, but I’ve no business of words, but business of works. I will do politics of unity.”
“I will not get involved in the politics of war of words. I will not do the politics of divisions. We have had enough politics of disunity and divisions,” he observed.
He indicated that his proposed party might field candidates in all 300 constituencies in next parliamentary elections.
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