Mayor's office vandalised

A Correspondent, Barisal
A group of contractors yesterday afternoon ransacked the municipality office under Muladi upazila of the district following a discord over the conditions for dropping tender. They also assaulted several officials including the acting Mayor and the secretary of the municipality office, witnesses said. Sources said Muladi municipality office invite a tender on August 02 and yesterday was the last date for submitting it. But the 'AL-backed' contractors disputed two conditions of the tender. Officer-in-charge Amiruzzaman of Muladi police station said, at around 12pm yesterday, acting Mayor Enamul Haq invited upazila Awami League president Abdul Bari and general secretary Abdul Malek to his office for a meeting on the matter. But before the start of the talk some unruly aides and contractors started to vandalise the office, the OC added.