DHAKA: Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin has come out all guns blazing against Muhammad Yunus, accusing the former interim govt chief of hatching conspiracies to overthrow him as well as destabilise the country, and create a constitutional vacuum.
"They tried to keep me in the dark. They did not want the people to recognise me. They did not allow me to attend functions abroad or within the country," said the president, providing yet another peek into the unknown facet of the Nobel laureate who won over influential global lobbies by outfitting himself as a peace-loving academic, but whose tenure as interim administrator came to be defined by manipulation, semi-authoritarian tendencies and brazen indulgence of violent fundamentalists.
