Bangladesh
PM USA Visit BNP-Jamaat supporters left the venue on the Prime Minister's call for talks in Washington
Dhaka, May 3: A group of BNP-Jamaat supporters protesting against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina outside the Ritz Carlton hotel on Tuesday (local time) left the scene after being invited for talks by her. The Prime Minister was given a civil reception by the Bangladeshi diaspora in the United States in the hall of the Ritz Carlton Hotel.
Later, the Prime Minister's speechwriter M Nazrul Islam said in a press briefing, "BNP-Jamaat supporters left their position outside the hotel only after the Prime Minister expressed interest in talking to them about their problems."
Sheikh Hasina arrived in Washington DC on April 28 to attend a World Bank event marking 50 years of Bangladesh-WB partnership.
The spokesperson said that when the Prime Minister came to attend the civic reception, he saw a group of BNP-Jamaat protesting outside the hotel in extreme cold and rain and expressed his desire to speak to their representatives.
Quoting the Prime Minister, he said, "Sheikh Hasina said, whatever they want to say, let them come here and say it."
After getting the necessary permission to take the protestors to the hotel, the Prime Minister's PS-2 and another official from the Bangladesh Mission there went to invite them to the hotel.
