Attack on journos at BNP office
Some unidentified people attacked journalists at a press conference arranged by a faction of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) yesterday.
The incident took place at the district unit office of the party at Post Office Road in the town.
Around ten journalists were confined inside the office at that time.
Journalists present there said they went to the BNP office as district leader barrister M Sarwar Hossain called a press conference there against the district unit president and general secretary.
Around 50 people suddenly attacked them with iron pipes and sticks in the presence of police. They saved themselves by locking the door of the office.
Police rescued the journalists after they contacted high officials over phone.
Sarwar claimed that youths from the ruling party attacked the journalists under the influence of some BNP men.
District BNP had arranged a press conference recently at Pirojpur Press Club, protesting a report on Pirojpur district BNP. In the press conference, BNP men criticised Sarwar.
Sarwar arranged the counter press conference yesterday.
District BNP President Gazi Nuruzzaman Babul said he returned to Pirojpur from Dhaka yesterday.
“I was not informed about the press conference,” he said, adding that they often face obstacles when they arrange any programme in their party office.
In a written speech, Sarwar claimed that top district BNP men have internal connection with the ruling party men.
“Although thousands of leaders and activists all over the country have been sued, those top leaders were not facing such a situation ,” he said.
District vice-presidents Md Liakat Ali Sheikh Badsha and Md Nazrul Islam Khan, also Nazirpur Upazila Parishad Chairman, were present at the press conference.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Pirojpur Sadar Police Station Md Masumur Rahman Biswas, however, said no such incident took place at the BNP office.
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