FROM KUALA LAMPUR: Founder of Grameen Bank (GB) Dr Muhammad Yunus urged the countrymen to become active for the party which would work to amend the newly passed Grameen Bank Act-2013.

The eminent economist, also a Nobel Peace Prize Winner in 2006, also said, “The characteristics of the bank have been changed by amending the act. This would destroy the organization.”

The Nobel Laureate came up with the plea while talking to Bangladeshi journalists after the first session of the 5th Social Business Summit in Kuala Lumpur of Malaysia on Thursday.

Urging to raise voice against the act by the government, he said: “We cannot support the incumbent government. We will work for those who would work to amend the act.”

Yunus also said: “It (Grameen Bank) will not run under the government. This is why I am pleading to bring such a government to power so that the bank can be protected.”

Dr Muhammad Yunus presented the keynote speech at the opening session of the three-day-long global summit at Kuala Lumpur Convention Center.

The theme of the summit of this year is ‘social business to change the world.’ But the huge arrange seemed they want to change the world with their success in this sector.

Eminent jurist Dr Shahdeen Malik, Dr Asif Nazrul, business and entrepreneur Rokeya Afzal and various sections of people from Bangladesh have joined the summit.

BDST: 1731 HRS, NOV 07, 2013
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