in 2006 doctor yunus and other important people, such as professor rehman sobhan, justice muhammad habibur rahman, doctor kamal hossain, matiur rahman, mahfuz anam and debapriya bhattchariya, tried to find good people to be elected for government. yunus thought about joining government himself that year. on 11 february 2007, yunus wrote a letter, published in the bangladeshi newspaper "daily star", and he asked what people thought of creating a good government. the letter asked everyone to give ideas for this and to offer him help dr. yunus started a political group called citizens' power ("nagorik shakti") on 18 february 2007. there was speculation that the army supported a move by yunus into politics. but on 3 may, yunus stopped the group after a meeting with fakhruddin ahmed (government politician).