(24 News) Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is the pioneer of the global microcredit movement who can take over the new interim government of Bangladesh, he was a staunch opponent of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who fled the country after resigning.
Known as the ‘Banker to the poor’ and the founder of Grameen Bank, Yunus also won the Nobel Peace Prize, providing small loans of less than $100 to the poor living in rural areas. He helped lift millions of people out of poverty, who were not even paid attention to by traditional banks, and for this kind of goodwill, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.
His lending model has inspired similar projects around the world, including in developed countries such as the U.S. He launched a separate nonprofit in the U.S., Grameen America, as his success grew. He started trying his luck in politics, he even tried to form his own party in 2007, but he was accused by Hasina Wajid of ‘sucking the blood of the poor’ and he was Had to face the wrath of Hasina.
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Critics in other countries, including Bangladesh and neighboring India, have also said that microlenders charge exorbitant prices and make money off the poor, but Yunus, on the other hand, said our interest rates are higher than local rates in developing countries. In 2011, Sheikh Hasina Wajid’s government removed him from the post of head of Grameen Bank, saying that he was 73 years old and had passed the legal retirement age of 60. He cannot head the Grameen Bank, then thousands of Bangladeshi citizens formed a human chain to protest against his dismissal.
In January of this year, Yunus was sentenced to 6 months in prison for violating the labor law. In June of this year, a local court in Bangladesh convicted him and 13 others of the workers’ welfare fund of the telecom company he established. was indicted on charges of embezzling 252.2 million taka (about US$2 million) from, although he was not sent to jail in either case.
Younis also faces more than 100 other charges of corruption and other charges. , these are fabricated and fabricated stories.
He criticized Hasina Wajid in the month of June this year and said, “Bangladesh has no politics left, only one party which is active and controls everything, which does everything, which It enters the election in its own way.
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It should be noted that Younis is currently in Paris, France for a minor medical surgery. What is agreed?
2024-08-08 01:56:52