Billboards having Khaleda's portrait damaged
Two billboards containing portraits of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and Secretary General Khondaker Delwar Hossain were damaged allegedly by the ruling party men at Baniajuri Bus stand beside Dhaka-Aricha highway under Ghior upazila early Sunday.
Local BNP sources alleged that the ruling party men led by Golam Rabbani Bulbul, general secretary of Baniajuri Union AL, Almas Uddin Biswas, assistant secretary, and Prodip Kumer Mondol, a member of the unit, damaged the billboards at the bus stand.
Shopkeepers at the bus stop said a group of people damaged the billboards at around 3:00am. They also beat up night guard Helal Uddin as he protested their act.
Protesting the incident, locals and shopkeepers on Sunday confined the three AL men to Baniajuri Union AL office for two hours from 9:00am.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Ghior Police Station Azizur Rahman told this correspondent that police rescued the AL men at around 11:00am.
No case was filed with the police station concerned in connection with the incident as of filing of this report as 5:00pm yesterday.
Local BNP and its associate bodies also brought out a procession in Baniajuri bus stand area on Sunday demanding exemplary punishment to the persons responsible for damaging the portraits of their party chief and secretary general.
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