‘Reset button’: Prof Yunus didn’t mean wiping out Bangladesh’s proud history of 1971

The Chief Adviser’s Articulate of job (CAO) has issued a clarification concerning the controversy over CA Prof Muhammad Yunus’ “pushing the reset button” stutter made within the route of a fresh interview.

A commentary launched by the CA’s Press Fly this morning (10 October) talked about, “When Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus spoke about pressing the reset button, he supposed making a brand fresh open from unhealthy politics, which destroyed all Bangladesh’s key establishments, pushed the financial system to the brink of collapse and robbed the rights to vote and civil liberties of tens of thousands and thousands of of us.

“He did no longer mean wiping out Bangladesh’s proud history.

“While you press the reset button, you reset the tool to open in every single establish yet again. It doesn’t commerce the hardware. The 1971 Liberation Struggle created the hardware of Bangladesh,” talked about the commentary.

It talked about that some of us are misinterpreting the fresh interview of Yunus, who took over because the chief adviser of the period in-between government on 8 August, with Utter of The US (VOA).

Within the interview taken on 27 September and published on 3 October, Yunus talked with VOA about various fundamental points.

In accordance with a query of concerning the torching of the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum — constructed on the dwelling of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Dhanmondi 32 in Dhaka — on 5 August following the ouster of the Awami League government, Yunus told the VOA interviewer, “You are talking in regards to the previous. It sounds as if, you do now not have in mind that a mass rebellion has since taken establish. You are speaking as if it by no intention came about. It be important to peep what’s going down on this fresh trouble.

“You enact no longer appear to secure any questions about what number of school students secure sacrificed their lives, why they sacrificed their lives. First, we must admit that they, the college students, talked about that we’ve pushed a reset button. The previous is gone needless to declare. Now we are able to develop up in fresh intention. Other folks also desire that. And this fresh intention intention we must raise reforms.”

The controversy concerning the “reset button” stutter surfaced after many of us on social media platforms harshly criticised Yunus for asserting the “previous is gone needless to declare” as they’ve “pushed a reset button”.

Clarifying, the CA’s Press Fly in its commentary talked about that as soon as Yunus arrived in Dhaka on 8 August to rob over because the chief adviser of the period in-between government, he told journalists at the Hazrat Shahjalal Global Airport that the pupil-led July-August mass rebellion became as soon as “our 2d Liberation — the fundamental liberation being the country’s horny war of independence in 1971.”

“Professor Yunus became as soon as an assistant professor at Middle Tennessee Articulate College. He fashioned the Bangladesh Voters Committee staunch away after the independence of Bangladesh which launched and launched a US-vast marketing campaign to persuade the US government to stare Bangladesh.

“He published the Bangladesh Newsletter to notify the arena in regards to the genocide in Bangladesh perpetrated by the Pakistani military,” it talked about.