Open letter on Yunus is not a statement, it’s an advertisement : Hasan Mahmud

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Information and broadcasting minister Hasan Mahmud on Friday said that the statement of 40 world leaders about Bangladesh’s one and only Nobel laureate, microcredit pioneer Md Yunus, is an advertisement, not a statement.

“There is a difference between an advertisement and a statement,” Hasan Mahmud explained, reports UNB.

“It cannot be called a statement, it is an advertisement. An advertisement in the name of 40 people has been printed in The Washington Post at a cost of crores of money.”

The minister was talking to reporters on Bangladesh’s “progress” in the annual democracy index compiled by Washington-based think tank Freedom House, at his residence in the capital’s Minto Road.

“Dr. Yunus is a senior citizen of Bangladesh. With due respect, I want to say that I have never seen such an advertising statement in Bangladesh. I don’t know if it happens in the world. The question is how reasonable it is to buy such a statement and publish it by spending crores of money. He is a Nobel laureate in any way. It actually undermined his personality. My question – where does his money come from?”