Staff Reporter : A journalist was attacked at an Awami League press conference in New York, USA. At a press conference organized by the Awami League at the Queen’s Palace in New York at around 6.30 pm local time on Wednesday (September 22), the Awami League leaders and activists who were present at the UN visit questioned the achievement of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Farid Alam is the Executive Editor and Head of Operations of NCN, a new New York-based TV channel (News Communication Network). In New York, he is known as a journalist of the BNP.
Awami League Central Publicity and Publication Secretary Abdus Sobhan Golap MP and Office Secretary and Special Assistant to the Prime Minister Biplob Barua convened a press conference at Queen’s Palace in New York on Wednesday on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to the United States. At that time, more than two dozen leaders and activists of the United States Awami League were sitting on the stage with them. Leaders and activists of Awami League spoke about the various successes of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to the United Nations. Then the expatriate journalists also asked one question after another. At one point, NCN journalist Farid Alam asked Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina what she had achieved during her visit to the United Nations.
He wants to know Awami League Central Publicity and Publication Secretary Abdus Sobhan Golap MP and Office Secretary and Special Assistant to the Prime Minister Biplob Barua
, What is the benefit of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina coming to the United States with a fleet of 141 people and inaugurating a sitting bench, planting trees in the name of Bangabandhu without all these programs? The leaders of the ruling Awami League were incensed at his question. He was physically assaulted.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s traveling companion reacted negatively to the NCN’s microphone at the press conference. At one stage, some leaders present there rushed towards journalist Farid Alam. Carries out ruthless surprise attack. Other journalists present at the time tried to save him by composing human armor. The press conference was disrupted in this incident. Journalists present at such activities of Awami League leaders and activists have strongly condemned and protested.
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