Case against Mayor
Series of agitation starts in Habiganj today
Habiganj municipality mayor and staff yesterday demanded immediate withdrawal of the 'false' case filed against them by the ruling party men on Sunday.
They made the demand at a press conference held at the auditorium of the municipality in the afternoon. They also announced an agitation programme beginning today to mount pressure on the district administration to withdraw the case.
The programmne includes, human chain in front of the deputy commissioner's office today, a half-day work abstention on May 9, protest rally on the pourasava premises on May 10, a half-day hartal on May 13, daylong work abstention on May 14 and an indefinite strike from May 15.
They also submitted memos to the deputy commissioner and the superintendent of police.
Mayor GK Gous, also the general secretary of BNP district unit, alleged that a group of ruling party men came to the municipality office in a procession during opposition-called hartal on April 22 in the name of handing over a memo to him protesting the proposed municipal tax.
Suddenly, the AL men went on the rampage and vandalised the pourasava office and some vehicles in front of the office, he alleged.
The mayor said Pourasava Secretary Zaved Iqbal filed a case with Habiganj police station the same day against town unit AL President Sharif Ullah, General Secretary Mukul Acharya, former district BCL president Motassirul Islam, general secretary Sultan Mahmud and 40 to 50 others ruling party men, but police did not record the case.
Being influenced by the ruling party men, police recoded a 'false' case against me and staff of the municipality after 12 days of the incident, the mayor further alleged.
Mayor and others told the press conference that one Abdul Awal of Josher Abda area in the municipality filed the case as complainant.
In the case statement, he alleged that mayor and staff members physically assaulted them when they went to the municipality office for handing over a memo on April 22.
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