BCL, AL front men clash in Kushtia
Activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) besiege Kushtia Sadar police station on Wednesday night demanding arrest of Swechchhasebok League workers who stabbed two BCL men in the town.Photo: STAR
The activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) besieged Kushtia Sadar police station on Wednesday night demanding arrest of the Swechchasebok League workers who stabbed two BCL men in the town. They also blocked Kushtia-Khulna highway at Mamampur point for two hours from 10:00am yesterday on the same demand. The injured BCL men--Saiful Islam, vice-president of Kushtia district unit, and Milon, an activist of Kushtia Government College unit--are undergoing treatment at Kushtia General Hospital. Police and BCL sources said the attack on Saiful and Milon on Wednesday night was a sequel to an incident that occurred at the entrance to Kushtia Government Collage at around 2:30pm the day. Saiful and BCL college unit activists intercepted a group of Swechchasebok League workers at the main gate of the college as they led by Kushtia district committee general secretary Sajjad Hossain Sabuj tried to enter the campus. When Saiful and Milon came to Narikeltala area in the town at around 8:30pm, Swechchasebok league workers swooped on the two, stabbed in different parts of their bodies and left the scene. Immediately after the incident, hundreds of BCL men brought out a procession in the town and laid a siege to Kushtia Sadar police station demanding immediate arrest of the attackers. The BCL men withdrew the siege programme at around 10:00pm after the district police officials assured them of arrest of the attackers. The agitating BCL men again took out a procession in the town yesterday morning to press home their demand and put up a barricade at Mamampur point of Kushtia-Khulna highway, disrupting traffic for two hours from 10:00am.
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