Dhaka is already a living hell.
And the PM's return?
Every single person - yes thats every single person - who particpated in that welcome is an idiot or a paid up goon, instructed by his 'local handler' to attend.
We have no class whatsoever.
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, "mh_ossain@..." <mh_ossain@...> wrote:
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>
>
> This is not new for us especially living in Dhaka city. If every PM is using VIP
> protocol, think about the traffic in Dhaka; meanwhile I guess MP/Ministers has
> no headache on this issue.
> If anything like underpass or elevator express way is not made within couple of
> year, Dhaka will be more like a hell.
> Regards
> Md. Iqbal Hossain
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Isha Khan <bdmailer@...>
> Sent: Thu, September 30, 2010 5:34:16 AM
> Subject: [ALOCHONA] Traffic rage over PM's return
>
>
> Traffic rage over PM's return
>
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>
> Dhaka, Sep 29 (bdnews24.com)â€"Thousands of commuters, many dashing to catch
> flights, suffered severe traffic gridlock in Dhaka from late Wednesday afternoon
> as pro-government supporters prepared to greet prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
>
>
> Around 3,000 adherents of the ruling Awami League and youth front Juba League
> blocked Airport Road towards Shahjalal International Airport with trucks, buses,
> pick-ups and cars, which meant hundreds of international and local passengers
> may have, or almost, missed their flights.
>
>
> Many were reduced to pushing their vehicles that ran out of gas as they waited
> for hours on end.
>
>
> The accesses to the Airport Road, such as Gulshan Link Road, Biswa Road leading
> to Badda, the road from Abdullahpur to Ashulia, were taken over by parliament
> members and senior party leaders who led slogan-shouting processions through the
> city streets.
>
>
> It was a party decision to accord Hasina reception at the airport. She flew back
> around 7:50pm after attending the UN General Assembly in New York.
>
>
> It was by no means the first time that Dhaka residents suffered such ignominy.
> Her party people clogged key roads when Hasina returned from the Commonwealth
> Heads of Government meeting at Port-au-Spain on Dec 4 last year and again from
> the COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference on Dec 21 that year.
>
>
> At one stage, the eight-lane Dhaka-Mymensingh highway shrank to two lanes due to
> the heavy gathering of the activists. The motorcycles, microbuses, buses, and
> trucks carrying the party activists were parked on the road.
>
>
> Desperate commuters vented their anger to bdnews24.com correspondent.
>
> Two Danes were scurrying down the road at 7:55pm, zigzagging through the party
> activists. One of them, 'Maria', who gave only one name, said they needed to
> catch a flight back home at 8:30pm.
>
>
> "We don't know where did we get down from the car, but we're walking for the
> last 10 minutes," she said.
>
>
> Middle-aged Laila Aziz of Uttara said she tried to go to Dhanmondi to meet her
> daughter, but returned home after seeing the huge tailback.
>
>
> At 7:15pm, bus helper 'Rafique' of Ananya Paribahan said that it took them two
> and a half hours to reach the airport from Mohakhali. Naila Chowdhury said she
> reached Rajlakhhi at Uttara from Gulshan-2 after two and a half hours.
>
>
> Mohammad Hanif, who works with a private firm at Gulshan, said he started to
> walk from Biswa Road for home at Uttara in exasperation.
>
>
> The prime minister started for her official residence around 8pm in a motorcade,
> when the traffic was halted again. The activists had been shouting slogans for
> Hasina before 7pm, forcing senior Awami League leaders, cabinet members and
> other VIPs to meander through to reach the VVIP Lounge.
>
>
> Things got slightly better for a brief period when Juba League leaders came to
> the Airport Road around 7:15pm and urged their activists through loudspeakers to
> stay on either side of the road to let the traffic move.
>
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