NCP demands dismissal of all New York consulate staff after attack on Akhter

The National Citizen Party (NCP) Diaspora Alliance has condemned attacks on political leaders accompanying Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus on his official visit to the United States and demanded the dismissal of all staff at the Bangladesh Consulate General in New York. The group accused consulate officials of “neglect of duty” after Awami League supporters allegedly harassed members of Yunus’s delegation at John F Kennedy International Airport on Monday. Six politicians, including NCP leaders Akhter Hossen and Tasnim Jara, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Jamaat-e-Islami deputy chief Abdullah Mohammad Taher, are accompanying the chief adviser to the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). After landing at John F Kennedy Airport in New York shortly after...