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BNP processionists ransack shops, damage vehicles
BNP leaders and workers yesterday ransacked 10 shops, damaged two covered vans, two motorbikes and a truck at Ghorashal in Narsingdi.
In Thakurgaon, a BNP protest rally yesterday demanded cancellation of Bhola-3 by-election results.
BNP men brought out an angry procession in Ghorashal municipal town demanding uninterrupted supply of gas, power and water.
The processionists attacked and ransacked at least 10 shops and several vehicles.
Palash police station OC Atiqur Rahman said the BNP leaders and workers who joined the procession led by Ghorashal municipal Jubo Dal president Mohiuddin and general secretary Jahangir made an attack on Sharif electronics shop.
When the traders chased the BNP men they attacked 10 shops and vehicles including two covered vans of Pran Foods.
A case has been filed with Palash police station in this regard. Police also arrested Jubo Dal leader Jahangir, 36, and Sramik Dal leader Piru, 32.
In Thakurgaon, district BNP yesterday held a rally demanding cancellation of Bhola-3 by-poll results and resignation of chief election commissioner and his two deputies, reports our correspondent.
The speakers at the rally said politicisation is on in all sectors including judiciary.
Law and order is rapidly deteriorating while the government has failed to supply electricity, gas and water.
The activists of BCL and Jubo League are busy in tender scam, violence and grabbing of public property, they said.
The speakers said almost all the national dailies reported that voters in Bhola were resisted while going to vote centres.
The AL activists also tortured the BNP supporters during the election campaign. They also forced polling agents to leave the vote centres. The AL activists also raped a mother and her daughter at the constituency as they were supporters of BNP candidate, they alleged.
The government must cancel the result of the by-election, otherwise BNP would launch a tougher movement to bring back people's voting rights, they warned.
General secretary of district BNP Toimur Rahman, joint secretary Obaidullah Masud addressed the meeting.
Earlier, a procession was brought out in the town that paraded the main streets of the town.
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