Dr Yunus sued for not paying workers’ dues: Hasan

Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud has said the labourers sued Dr Yunus as he didn’t pay dues of the workers.

The minister told journalists while replying to a query at his secretariat office on Monday after unwrapping the cover of the book ‘Shoronarthir Jobanbandi 1971’ authored by Popy Debi Thapa, a researcher of Press Institute Bangladesh (PIB).

“Many Nobel laureates of the world were convicted of criminal and civil offences and many of them have been served in jail for long,” Dr Hasan said.

“With due respect to Dr Muhammad Yunus, I would like to say that he didn’t pay the dues of the workers for long. Later, the labourers went to court. His organization tried to manage two labour leaders by giving bribe of Taka 6 crore,” he noted.

The minister congratulated the author of the book.

PIB Director General Zafar Wazed, among others, addressed the programme.