Why did Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh failed to form a parliamentary political group ?

I think for some political pressure from BNP and Aoamileague and lack of power he had failed to form his group………

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Mystry Behind Hasina’s Anger against Dr. Yonus
Abid Bahar

Many people internationally wonder why Hasina as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh now and even before has been so vicious against a Bangladeshi who brought international fame for Bangladesh. True, Dr. Yonus is not even a political rival of Hasina.

To our knowledge Dr. Yonus began his career as an academician and has been in the banking business eversince. In contrast Hasina was never an academician nor a religious fundamentalist to condemn interest charged by bank; she was a housewife turned politician. But why this unwanted anger? Research shows there are several underlying subliminal factors behind Hasina’s deeply rooted prejudice against this international figure.

Firstly, Dr Yonus’s ideas of Gramin revolution germinated during the time of Bangabandhu’s 1974 famine. Amarta Sen, the Nobel Prize winner from West Bengal called it the “man -made famine.” AL fondly calls 1972-75 period as the time of Bangabandhu’s “Golden Bengal.”It is even written in Bangladesh’s history book manufactured by the Hasina AL.

True, Yonus’s Gramin was a reaction to the human suffering during the 1974 famine when over a great number of lives perished Yonus as a professor in Bangladesh personally witnessed the human suffering which led him to begin an experiment in a village near Chittagong University where he finally came up with the Gramin revolution. Dr. Yonus in his speech often mentions the human suffering of the time. He never intentionally does it to put down Bangabadu’s “Sonar Bangla” period but often explains how he began his revolution. This no doubt, inadvertantly bleeds the AL heart. Hasina as the Mujib daughter can not stand this revolution that mentions the 1974 famine but glorifies Bangladesh internationally.
Secondly, in anectdotal form Dr Yonus at least once referred that on March 25 Bangabandhu Mujib in stead of waiting for the Pakistani army to take him to custody (some call it his voluntary surrender) a leader like him could have choosen to be with the rebels to lead the nation as a rebel leader. To Dr. Yonus Mujib’s presence as a very powerful leader with the rebels could have been more helpful for the nation at times of its supreme crisis. This is in effect a direct challenge to Mujib as the father of the nation claim. True, Mujib was an absentee leader but given the title “father of the nation” by the ALfor leading the war is now even codified in the constitution.

Thirdly, in anictdotal form somewhere Dr. Yonus acknowledged that President Zia’s financial grant at the crucial time of Gramin’s growth helped it to take off from its infancy to its adolescence. To the AL this a bad news for the Gramin and surely a sin committed by Yonus because to the AL hero-worshippers, Zia was a “Pakistani razakar.”
This created a scenerio which is as if when Dr. Yonus is not with the AL he must be with the enemy. So Dr. Yonus must be a confirmed razakar too. That is why the Zia phobic Hasina even as the PM found it important that Dr. Yonus must be condemned before even found guilty. See http://www.muhammadyunus.org/In-the-Media/professor-muhammad-yunus-opening-remarks-at-the-press-conference-on-december-12-2010/
Finally, the AL party originally founded by Mawlana Bhasani to fight for democracy but under Mujib’s leadership has eversince turned itself into a hero-worshipping party and not long ago, Mujib followers ganged up together on a staged BBC survey to name Mujib as the greatest Bengali of all times. Dr. Yonus’s international fame is a direct challenge to Mujib as the only great man. Dr. Yonus proved himself too smart. To the AL no Bengali eversince Mujib became the leader of Bangladesh should cross his fame. Dr. Yonus crosses Bangabandhu Mujib and even received a Nobel Prize. This is not tolerable, on the other hand to the AL Hasina is the one that deserves a Nobel Prize.
To Dr. Yonus as a non political person this is as if when he has been trying to avoid Bangabandhu in every turn, the shadow of Bangabandhu with Hasina appears before him. Perhaps this is the reason why even before he was proven to be guilty, the Dhaka University branch of Chatro League leaders demanded that Yonus’s Nobel Prize should be rebuked. Perhaps in this whole range of debate the rivalary has to do more with a battle between fact and fiction or to be sure between Bangabandhu’s BKSAL fascism of socialist repression vs. Yonus’s Gramin social business in a free market economy.
Fortunately Dr. Yonus is a decent Bangladeshi compared to his adversary the loghi boitha leader Hasina also known as the wrong -headed lady.

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