Attack on AL-Backed Municipality Councillor
BCL, Jubo League men torch BNP leader's house in Feni
A councillor of Parashuram municipality in Feni district was physically assaulted by Chhatra Dal and Jubo Dal men on Monday night.
Hearing the news, Chhattra League and Jubo League activists gathered at Parashuram Bazar, went to Banshpudia village under the upazila and vandalised the house of BNP municipal unit Organising Secretary Nurul Islam Majumdar. They also set the house afire.
Police and locals said councillor Rasul Ahmed Swapan, also former president of BCL Parashuram upazila unit, had an altercation with some BNP men over tearing a poster of Jubo League leader in the area on Saturday. He blamed two local BNP men for tearing the poster and beat them up.
As a sequel to the incident, JCD and Jubo Dal supporters swooped on Rasul at Guthuma village at around 11:00pm and hit him with sharp weapons.
The seriously injured councillor was admitted to the upazila health complex on Saturday. Protesting the attack on the AL-backed councilor, BCL and Jubo Dal men blocked Parashuram-Feni Road at
Dak Bungalow point at the upazila headquarters for two hours from 8:00am yesterday.
Police yesterday arrested four people for their alleged involvement in the attack on Rasul. The arrestees are Ataul Haq, general secretary of JCD municipal unit, Nur Ahmed Patwary, convenor of upazila Sramik Dal, and Jubo Dal activists Saddam Hossain and Md Faruk.
Parashuram upazila BNP President Habibur Rahman yesterday alleged that the ruling party men beat up their four party leaders and activist and later handed them over to the police.
“Though the AL men torched BNP leader Nurul Islam's house on Monday night, police did not arrest any of them as of today,” he alleged.
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