Protesters Barge Into Bangladesh Consulate in US, Remove Portrait of Mujibur Rahman

Videos of angry protestors barging into the consulate in New York surfaced on the internet. (Image/X@sneheshphilip)

Video showed officials trying to calm down the agitators, who outnumbered them before removing the portrait of Mujibur Rahman from the wall

Protestors stormed into the Bangladesh Consulate in New York and removed the portrait of Mujibur Rahman on Tuesday, a day after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country and landed in India. Videos of angry protestors barging into the consulate in New York surfaced on the internet.

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Video showed officials trying to calm down the agitators, who outnumbered them before removing the portrait of Mujibur Rahman from the wall. The protestors carried banners reading “From NYC to Bangladesh, Solidarity”.

Some X users pointed out the lack of security outside the Bangladesh consulate despite the ongoing unrest in the South Asian country.

News18 cannot independently verify the veracity of the video.

Bangladesh has been engulfed by protests and violence since last month after student groups demanded the scrapping of a controversial quota system in government jobs. The protests then escalated into a campaign to seek the ouster of Hasina, who won a fourth straight term in January in an election boycotted by the opposition.

On Monday, Hasina resigned and fled the country following which, hundreds broke into her official residence, vandalising and looting the interiors, providing dramatic expression to the anti-government protests that have killed more than 100 people in the last two days.

Attendance at various government offices in Dhaka remained quite low amid growing fear and anxiety, Bangladesh media reported on Tuesday.

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