<i>Using the Jubo League muscle</i>
A local influential man has erected this corrugated iron structure with a signboard reading 'Bangladesh Awami Jubo League, temporary office of ward No 7 of Dinajpur municipality,' after sand-filing a roadside land at Balubari in Dinajpur, much to the disturbance of the family of a doctor residing at an adjacent house. Photo: STAR
A disputed makeshift structure claiming 'temporary office' of a ward Jubo League unit in Dinajpur municipality has triggered discord between physicians and local Jubo League men. The structure, erected by one Azam Khan just in front of the door of the residence of Dr Md Abul Kalam Azad, former assistant professor of Dinajpur Medical College, hinders entrance and exit to the residence. Five press conferences were held over the matter during the last one week. Dr Azad, accompanied by several doctors of Dinajpur Medical College and Hospital, members of Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA), and Swadhinata Chikitshak Parisad, a doctors' association backed by ruling Awami League, held a press conference at Dinajpur Press Club on Tuesday morning. "I bought the four decimals of land from Azam Khan and got it registered in the name my wife. But Azam along with advocate Saiful Islam, general secretary of Dinajpur Jubo League, built the structure on a disputed land of Roads and Highways Department," Dr Azad said at the press conference. "Their motive is to force me to sell the land to Azam Khan for a low price. Using political influence of ruling Awami League, they also hung with the makeshift structure a signboard that reads 'Bangladesh Awami Jubo League, temporary office of ward No 7 of Dinajpur municipality," he said. Convener of Dinajpur municipality Jubo League Md Moniruzzaman Jewel, who was present at the press conference, said the organisation has at present no committee at Ward No 7. At the press conference, Dr Azad's wife Maleka Banu said their neighbours Azam Khan and advocate Saiful Islam and their accomplices have inflicted untold sufferings on them for the last one month to force them out of the land. Meanwhile, Dr Ahad Ali, general secretary of BMA wrote a letter to the president and the general secretary of Dinajpur unit of Awami League seeking a solution to the matter but to no effect. On the other hand, Azam Khan at a press conference on Sunday said that Dr Azad was building walls on a disputed land. Advocate Saiful Islam claimed that he has no involvement with the incident.
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