Dinajpur old press club building occupied
Criminals damage old Dinajpur Press Club building in an attempt to occupy it illegally yesterday. The press club secretary filed a GD accusing Mirza Ashfaque Hossain, APS to the state minister for land and his men, for the act. Photo: STAR
A few local influential people illegally occupied the old Dinajpur Press Club building at Nimtola intersection in the town yesterday noon. They removed corrugated iron (CI) sheets from the roof of the building and damaged furniture. Md Golam Nabi Dulal, general secretary of Dinajpur Press Club, filed a general diary (GD) with Sadar Police Station at around 3:00pm. In the GD, the press club secretary alleged that Mirza Ashfaque Hossain, APS to the state minister for land, and his men had illegally captured the press club building. When contacted over cellphone, APS Ashfaq denied the allegation. He said, “Press club secretary Dulal has filed a GD, accusing me of capturing the building as I had earlier filed defamation cases against some local journalists for publishing false and unfounded reports on local and national dailies against me”. Dulal has made a false allegation to take revenge, APS Ashfaq further said. Dinajpur journalists leased the land from district administration in 1982 and built this tin-shed press club on it. They shifted the club to a new two-storey building at Kalitola in the town in 2002. The executive committee of Dinajpur Press Club in its meeting recently decided to use the old building as club library. Md Hasan Shamim Iqbal, officer in Charge of Dinajpur Sadar police station, said lawful action will be taken against the occupiers.
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