<i>Comedy at JFK airport</i>
Activists of Awami League (AL) and BNP clashed at JFK airport in New York yesterday immediately after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left the place, reported international news agency Ena.
Sheikh Hasina, also AL chief, reached the USA yesterday afternoon with a huge delegation to attend the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Several hundred activists of AL and its front organisations in the USA thronged the airport to welcome their leader.
When the car carrying the premier left the airport, the activists began shouting out “Catch the Razakars” and then ensued the scuffle between the AL activists and the BNP men at the airport. The clash lasted for six to seven minutes.
Sensing that police were coming, the AL and BNP men pretended to hug each other and left the place, reported Ena.
But after a while the BNP activists held a protest rally on the airport parking lot, and claimed that Hasina had left the place through an alternative way in the face of their blockade.
Ena also reported that Hasina could not deliver a speech to her party members amidst chaos created by the welcoming crowd.
BNP activists said they will hold protest programmes outside the hotel where Sheikh Hasina will stay during her visit, outside her reception centres and the UN General Assembly.
Members of the USA AL and Jubo League alleged that activists of BNP-Jamaat alliance were conspiring against them to create chaos.
Komoruddin, secretary of the BNP central committee of international affairs, however, said, “Sheikh Hasina has tarnished the image of Bangladesh by inciting her activists to attack a peaceful gathering of BNP”.
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