Role of Dr. Yunus

My feeling is that political parties and Bangabhaban authorities should invite Dr Yunus and/or anyone else they feel competent in the process of solving the political problems. All Advisers, delegates from major political parties, senior judges of the High Court, Attorney General, home and cabinet secretaries, and three heads of armed forces, and senior journalists may participate in a workshop, which would be managed by professional moderator(s) through pre-set and follow-up questions to obtain presumed results to be agreed upon by the delegates. If they fail to draw any conclusion they must agree with the next steps to be taken by the government. All recorded sessions of the workshop will conclude with clear-cut suggestions to all participating bodies about their rights and duties.

The government may consider making public important parts of the records for civic information. Of course, it is a technical but helpful process to obtain optimum output with minimum misapprehension. There is no scope of denying the fact that constitutional framework has been broken down in the past few days like glass pieces and recurrence of vandalism similar to High Court incident is feared anywhere anytime endangering valuable lives and state properties.

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We need an economist like Prof. Yunus to lead our country, to lead our people in the right path, to eradicate corruption from the roots. Prof. Yunus is the only person who has the brain and the heart to make our country the "Sonar Bangla" we dream of ..

. a land where poverty would be a thing of the past.

He would be the ideal leader as he truly feels for the poor and his banking empire is based on helping those in need. He does not know the meaning of greed and is a most loved person for his strong principles.

If there is real democracy in our country, who would vote for the parties out to ruin it?

Who can be a better person than Prof. Yunus to bring peace to our motherland? How unfortunate it is that the world has recognised him for his great work to eradicate poverty, to bring peace to the world... YET his own country is not able to make use of such a talent for its own development.
Ria Mizan , Sydney

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I went to the Zia International Airport on 31 October night to have a glimpse of the great winner of the 2006 Peace Noble PrizeDr. Muhammad Yunus. I was ready to greet him with flowers. He asked me why I was standing outside the airport so late at night. He also wanted to know my profession. I humbly introduced myself as a businessman and social worker and mentioned his great contribution to our society, particularly in eradicating poverty.

I met him for the first time in my life though I had long been an admirer of this man. I saw on television Dr Yunus talking with poor rural women. But I did not know then what was micro credit. But the experts in the developed world did realise what a wonderful mechanism he had developed to alleviate poverty. He is a true liberator of our poor rural women. They have broken the barriers of superstitions and come out of the poverty cycle.

We have not yet been able to assess his contribution properly. But his universal recognition as the banker of the poor should make us proud and enable us to realise what he has done for our country.

Today Prof. Yunus is a great Noble laureate to the world at large.
Touhidul Abedin, Naya Paltan, Dhaka