After meeting with PM Hasina, US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Robert Blake yesterday said “there is still room for compromise” in resolving the issue arising from the removal of Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus as the Managing Director of Grameen Bank he founded. “Such a compromise will also allow us to continue very good progress that we made in our bilateral relations”. Although the finance minister says the relations with America are better then ever, the requested compromise is definitely was asked for from the government. Everyone knew the handling of Yunus’ matter would put the government in a difficult situation. PM Hasina and some others had accused Yunus of implementing greedy capitalist model in the name of helping poor. It gets very ironic to hear such comments when one sees the current government’s hard work, day and night, to turn whole Bangladesh into a free trade zone in the name of helping poor. Who knows maybe, Yunus’ matter will give the Minister of Finance some sort of leverage in bilateral economic agreements. . Politics is sometimes a really dirty job.
