BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday urged the government not to interfere in the affairs of Grameen Bank.
If voted to power, the BNP would take Grameen Bank to its original shape, said Fakhrul adding that his party would stand by the side of the 8.4m clients of the bank.
“Please do not interfere in the affairs of the Grameen Bank; let the bank run autonomously,” he told journalists at the party’s Naya Paltan headquarters after holding a 40-minute-long meeting with Nobel laureate Muhammad the Yunus at Yunus Center in the capital.
The spokesperson of the party termed the government’s decision to break up the bank a ‘conspiracy’ and urged the government to refrain from making such a decision.
“Since the government took over, it has harassed Dr Yunus in many ways. Grameen Bank’s inquiry commission’s decision to split the organisation into 19 pieces is a conspiracy to destroy the organisation.”
The government is planning to take such a decision as it is not happy with the Nobel laureate Yunus,” he alleged.
During the meeting, the two discussed a number of sociopolitical and economic issues of the country and the government's ‘interference’ in the Grameen Bank, said a party source.
Fakhrul said earlier BNP Chairperson praised Dr Yunus for winning the Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest civilian honour of the United States. “Now I came here to praise him.”
The BNP leader said “No political issue was discussed in the meeting because he does not do politics.”
About the Padma Bridge tender, Fakhrul said “It is not possible for the government to construct the Padma Bridge without the funding of World Bank.”