Dhaka, Oct. 13 -- Several leaders of the Awami League, whose activities are banned in Bangladesh, have been accused of harassing former interim government chief advisor Muhammad Yunus in the United States.

The Nobel laureate was mobbed as he left New York's John F Kennedy Airport in a wheelchair at 3:45pm local time on Monday.

Lamiya Morshed, the interim government's chief coordinator for SDGs and executive director of the Yunus Centre, was with him at the time, carrying his luggage.

A video circulating on social media shows Imdad Chowdhury, general secretary of the New York Metropolitan Awami League, and Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury, general secretary of the US Jubo League, and a group of others standing in front of Yunus. Then, Yunus was...