AL-led alliance, associated with other organisations, formed human chain and held rally in Barisal yesterday asking the US ambassador to Bangladesh Dan Mozena to go back, during the third day of his five-day visit.
The programme was held under the banner of Protibadi Nagorik Samaj in front of Ashwini Kumar Hall in the city at 4:00 pm.
Among others Syed Anis, publicity secretary of district AL, Abdul Hye Mahbub, district JSD president, Nazrul Huque Nilu, Shanti Das, central committee member of Workers Party, AK Azad, district CPB president, Hiron Kumar Das Mithu, district Gano Forum president, Mizanur Rahman, secretary of Sangskritik Sangothan Samannya Parishad, Bishwanath Das Munshi, Udichi Barisal president, Anwar Zahid, Kazi Enayet Hossain Shiplu and Suvangkar Chakroborty-NGO organisers addressed the programme.
The speakers asked Mozena to return to his country, and not destabilize Bangladesh.
Police led by SI Kabir, at the mid of the programme, snatched the banner.
The US Ambassador to Bangladesh and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission Director Janina Jaruzelski have been visiting Barisal, Patuakhali, Pirojpur, Jhalokati, Barguna and Bhola for a five-day tour since February 24.