SQ Chy's street rally foild
Ruling AL activists and supporters yesterday foiled a street rally scheduled to be addressed by BNP Standing Committee member Salahuddin Quader (SQ) Chowdhury in Chandanaish upazila.
Podium of the rally and at least eight arches set up to greet SQ Chowdhury were also vandalised by unknown people in the early hours of the day.
SQ Chowdhury was scheduled to address the street rally organised by Chandanaish upazila BNP on his way to Bandarban where he was to attend a Jubo Dal rally in the afternoon.
Chandanaish Pourashabha (municipality) units of Awami League, Jubo League and Chhatra League as well as local unit of Muktijoddha Sangsad also organised a rally at the same venue near Gachhbaria College at 3:00pm to demand trial of war criminals.
As SQ Chowdhury reached near the street rally venue at around 2:45pm some AL men and freedom fighters attacked his motorcade. They pelted shoes and stones damaging one of the vehicles in the motorcade withnesses.
SQ Chowdhury then went to Bandarban rally without stopping at the street rally venue.
However, the local leaders denied their involvement in ransacking the podium and arches. They rather blamed the two rival factions of Chandanaish BNP for the incident.
Local BNP leaders and activists alleged that AL men ransacked the podium and arches in presence of police. Prior to the rally police also arrested Chandanaish upazila BNP general secretary MA Hashem Raju at around 2:45am, they said.
However, officer-in-charge (OC) Noor Mohammad of Chandanaish police station said Raju was arrested in a fraud case filed with Paltan police station in the capital.
Police were not informed of the street rally, said the OC expressing his ignorance of ransacking any podium or arches.
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