The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday called on the government to stop harassing Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and withdraw all cases against him.
‘A hundred years later, the people of this nation would remember him [Yunus] with reverence and would be ashamed to think that such a noble person was treated so badly by this government. All cases against him should be withdrawn immediately,’ BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said in a statement.
Terming Yunus as an eminent person of the country, Fakhrul said that those who want to belittle and insult him would never be able to reach the same height as him, even if they were born again.
Accept this inevitable fact and stop harassing him, Fakhrul said.
The BNP came up with the statement a day after 183 global leaders, including 104 Nobel laureates, in an open letter to Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina, urged her to halt the current trial proceedings against Muhammad Yunus immediately.
On Monday, 18 workers of Grameen Telecom lodged a case against Yunus, who serves as chairman of the company, with the Labour Court.
After hearing the cases, Judge Marina Yasmin of Dhaka Labour Court-3 issued a summons requiring Yunus to respond by October 16.
The trial of another case against Yunus is pending with the Dhaka Labour Court-3.
