CA’s press wing clarifies Yunus comment

Ther press wing of Chief Adviser Dr Muhammad Yunus has issued a statement clarifying the CA’s recent comment over ‘pressing the reset button’ made during an interview with Voice of America (VoA).

According to the statement, when Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus spoke about pressing the reset button, he meant making a new start from corrupt politics, which destroyed all Bangladesh's key institutions, pushed the economy to the brink of collapse and robbed the people’s rights to vote and civil liberties of tens of millions of people.

He did not mean wiping out Bangladesh's proud history, says the press release.

“When you press the reset button, you reset the software to start all over again. It doesn’t change the hardware. The 1971 Liberation War created the hardware of Bangladesh,” it says.

Some people are misinterpreting Professor Muhammad Yunus's recent interview with Voice of America.

When he arrived in Dhaka on August 8 to take over as the Chief Adviser of the Interim Government, Professor Muhammad Yunus told reporters at the Hazrat Shahjalal Airport that July-August student-led mass uprising was our Second Liberation -- the first liberation being the country's glorious war of independence in 1971.