The chief adviser to the interim administration, Prof. Dr. Muhammad Yunus, who received the 1984 Ramon Magsaysay Award, has been congratulated by the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation.
“We at the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation offer our sincerest wishes of hope to your Interim Government and the peoples of Bangladesh,” read a congratulatory message of the foundation sent recently to Prof Yunus.
The recent political upheaval in Bangladesh is a blatant manifestation of the country’s citizens’ desire for a democratic, inclusive, and corrupt-free administration.
“The global community is relieved that the violence and brutality that marked the protests have ended, resulting to the interim government which you now head,” the message read.
“I think that government starts at the bottom and moves upward, because government exists for the welfare of the masses of the nation,” President Ramon Magsaysay declared resolutely in his credo. The state’s top official, in my opinion, need to lead by example by having a large heart, an open mind, good instincts, the quality of healthy impatience, and a deep affection for the average person.”
“May this new chapter in your country’s history be defined by stability and not uncertainty, by equity not inequality, and with leadership that upholds the fundamental rights of the common man and not the select few,” according to the message.
