<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>When visting Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina saw a group of BNP-Jamaat supporters protesting outside Ritz Carlton hotel amid cold and pouring rain, she invited them to come inside to talk about their problems.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But the demonstrators poured cold water on her good gesture and left the place. This happened here on Tuesday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to Prime Minister's speech writer M Nazrul Islam when Hasina was coming to hotel Ritz Carlton to attend a civic reception she saw that some supporters of BNP-Jamaat were demonstrating in front of the hotel.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“The Prime Minister saw it and at that time it was raining and biting cold outside,” he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hasina said since they (BNP-Jamaat supporters) are demonstrating outside in cold, let their representatives come in, according to Nazrul.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Let them come in here to say what they want,” he quoted the PM as saying.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The premier then asked her PS-II Al Mamun Murshed and one official from the the Bangladesh mission to bring them to the hotel.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“But police officials here at first denied to allow them without the permission from the hotel authority, then the officials took the permission from the hotel authority for taking them inside. But the demonstrating BNP-Jamaat supporters left the place spurning the good gesture of the Prime Minister,” Nazrul mentioned.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The prime minister sincerely wanted to listen to them, he said. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>