Locking AL Office for 'Tender Scam'
Bhola BCL vows action against 'rebel group'
Bhola district Chhatra League General Secretary Nazmul Hossain Tusher yesterday said the student organisation was not involved with the incident of putting the Awami League (AL) office under lock.
"Those who want to take advantage using the name of Chhatra League were behind the incident. The district Chhatra League president and I were outside Bhola for treatment of district unit president's seriously ailing father. The unit president's father died on the day of the incident. And so, we could not play any role regarding the incident," Tusher said.
He, however, said action will be taken against the 'rebel group' of Chhatra League soon.
The AL office was opened after activists led by Jubo League leader Enamul Huq Arzu broke the lock in the afternoon the same day, he added.
Some Chhatra League workers, who became agitated after failing to get share of tender in Bhola, brought out a protest procession on Saturday and put the AL office under lock, locals said.
The agitated Chhatra League workers alleged that tenders for about Tk 300 crore works were approved in Bhola during the last one year but the senior leaders of AL shared the work among themselves depriving the Chhatra League men.
Chhatra League leaders were assured that they would be given share of about 3.5 crore works of zila parishad and upazila engineering department under 40 groups but it was secretly distributed among senior AL leaders, said local sources including AL and Chhatra League insiders.
Hearing the news, 40 to 50 Chhatra League activists in a procession came in front of the district AL office Saturday noon. They held a protest rally there. and blocked movement of traffic for sometime.
They chanted slogans against 'tender manipulators' in Bhola.
Later they put a lock on the already existing lock at the AL office door.
"Some workers of Chhatra League put a lock over the already existing lock of the Awami League office. However, no further untoward incident occurred centring it," said Bhola Police Station Officer-in-Charge Faruque.
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