Deserving rock star status, Yunus does have an exclusive fan club. His friend Hillary Clinton feted him during a stopover in Dhaka in May; and an indignant Richard Branson last week fired off a letter to the editor of The Times. But in the main, the world's media has averted its gaze while the Bangladeshi banker has been pummelled for more than a year
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
William B Milam, who was posted in Dhaka in the early 1990s for three years, asked other international lending agencies to take the World Bank's lead in withholding aid for the Awami League-led government.
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Professor Muhammad Yunus turned a villain in the eyes of the top policymakers of the ruling Bangladesh Awami League led leftist-Islamist coalition government, when he harshly criticized limitless corruption of the politicians as well took an initiative of floating a political party named Nagorik Shakti [Citizen's Power], although his political ambition got flopped at the zero hour as he failed to get expected support either from the mass people or from the members of the civil society as well as politicians. Simple reason behind such shameful consequence of his political ambition is, because though he attained grand success to build an international image being the founding father of Grameen Bank, the people at large in the country never anticipated him stepping into politics, nor they had any intention of extending any support to the initiatives of Nagorik Shakti in emerging as a political party, which surely would be an alternative to the existing mainstream political forces in Bangladesh.
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