
On Thursday, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who is leading Bangladesh’s interim government, declared that the rapid economic growth of his nation under former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was “fake.” He accused her of corruption and blamed the world for not challenging his claims.
What “hurts me a lot personally” is the tense relationship with New Delhi, he added. India and Bangladesh should have the best possible relationship. “As you are aware, it is impossible to depict India without also depicting Bangladesh,” he stated.
The South Asian nation’s interim government was led by Yunus, an economist and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who took over in August after Hasina was forced Bangladesh escape to nearby India after weeks of violent protests.
Hasina, who has been in power since 2009, is being investigated in Bangladesh on charges of money laundering, corruption, murder, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Dhaka has requested that New Delhi extradite her.
Hasina and her party deny any involvement, and the extradition request has not received a response from New Delhi.
She was in Davos, lecturing everyone on how to govern a nation. On the fringes of the annual conference of the World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alpine town, Yunus told Reuters, “Nobody questioned that.
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