BANGLADESH NEWS
The main opposition BNP on Friday urged the government to repeal ‘The Grameen Bank (Amendment) Ordinance, 2012’ to return the control of the Nobel winning microcredit organisation to its poor women owners.
“The government has declared a war against 80 lakh poor women with amendment to GB’s 1983 ordinance…so we demand the government scrap the amendment,” BNP stalwart Moudud Ahmed told a discussion.
Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Sangskritik Dal (BJSD) organised the discussion, titled ‘The Prime Minister’s Proposal on Electoral System: People’s Apprehension’, at the National Press Club.
Addressing the programme as the chief guest, Moudud said BNP will revoke the amended ordinance if it is voted to power.
On Thursday, President Zillur Rahman promulgated an ordinance amending the Grameen Bank Ordinance, 1983 giving more power to the Grameen Bank (GB) chairman to choose its managing director.
In his reaction hours after the promulgation of the amended ordinance, Noble laureate and former Managing Director of Grameen Bank Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus said: “I hope, there’ll come a government in the future, the first job of which will be to revive the glory of this bank by returning the bank to its poor women owners holding a function at the national level.”
Accusing the government of establishing its control on the GB like a state-owned one, Moudud, also a BNP standing committee member, said the government’s move will deprive the majority women board members of their rights to take decision on the bank’s development.
Terming the present regime undemocratic and autocrat, he said the government is pushing the country towards confrontation by creating issues one after another. He said, “People want to get rid of this regime… they don’t want to see Awami League in power anymore.”
Describing the prime minister’s poll-time small cabinet formula as merely a remark not proposal, Moudud said if she gives such proposal his party will never agree to it.
“BNP won’t accept the interim government under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina even if all the cabinet members are selected from the opposition for that government,” he said.
He once again urged the government to amend the 123 article of the constitution and restore the caretaker government (CG) system to oversee the next general election.
About his party’s anti-government movement plan, Moudud said they will launch a non-stop agitation programme to force the government to reinstate the CG system. “The movement will continue until the government incorporates the CG system in the constitution.”
The BNP chairperson will finalise the agitation programmes at the party’s standing committee meeting on Sunday night, he added.
BNP Standing Committee member Goyeswar Chandra Roy and president of Swadhinata Forum Abu Naser Md Rahmatullah, among others, addressed the discussion presided over by BJSD president Mej (retd) MM Mehbub Rahman.
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