Sec 144 at Sunamganj as rival BNP men call separate rallies
Sunamgnaj district administration yesterday imposed Section 144 in the town for 12 hours from 8:00am as a tense situation was prevailing there centring separate programme of two factions of BNP district unit while two rival groups of the party's Moulvibazar unit held separate programmes in the district town the same day.
In line with the party programme demanding midterm national election and protesting price hike of essentials, a faction of Sunamganj BNP called a rally at the local stadium while the other at the traffic point area, according to our staff correspondent.
The two factions--one led by Aspia and Dr Rafique Chowdhury and the other by former lawmakers Nasir Uddin Chowdhury and KolimUddin Ahmed Milon--on Sunday held separate rallies on the said venues and announced yesterday's programmes that also included handing over of memos to the deputy commissioner at the same time.
At Sunday's rally, Aspia and Rafique Chowdhury-led group also demanded immediate dissolution of the district committee, which was announced by the central committee on April 27.
BNP central committee announced the new district committee with former whip of the Jatiya Sangsad Fazlul Haque Aspia and former lawmaker Kolim Uddin Ahmed Milon as president and general secretary.
The announced angered the Aspia followers as a good number of activists belonging to their rival faction had been inducted into the committee.
Our Moulvibazar correspondent reported that two rival groups of BNP Moulvibazar district unit yesterday held rallies and procession in the town separately demanding midterm national election and protesting price hike of essentials.
Begum Khleda Robbani group of the district unit held its rally in front of Moulvibazar pourasava office while M Naser Rahman group at minibus stand at Shah Mostafa Road.
The rally in front of the pourasava office was addressed, among others by, district unit general secretary Begum Khaleda Robbani, Mayor of Moulvibazar Pourasava Fayzul Karim Mayun, Mosharraf Hussain Badsha and Moazzem Hussain. The faction also took out a procession in the town to press home the demands.
Chaired by M Naser Rahman, son of late finance minister M Saifur Rahman, the rally at the minibus terminal was addressed by central BNP leader Ruhul Amin Chawdhury as the chief guest. Leaders and activists belonging to the f actions also brought out a procession in the town.
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