Four Chitalmari upazila BNP leaders arrested
Police yesterday morning arrested four leaders of Chitalmari upazila BNP in connection with Sunday's Awami League (AL)-BNP clashes that left Chitalmari UNO and OC injured.
The arrestees are Chitalmari upazila BNP general secretary Mominul Haq Tulu Biswas,45, and three other local leaders--Babul Sheikh,30, Monirul Haq,40, and Moshiur Rahman Dalim,38.
Earlier, on Monday night five Jubo Dal and Chhatral Dal supporters were arrested in this connection.
Three separate cases were filed by police and local Awami League leader against 701 BNP leaders and workers including 475 unnamed people following the incident.
At least 50 people including Chitalmari UNO Md Sohel Hasan and OC Hasan Hafizur Rahman were injured in a clash between Awami League and BNP activists when some BNP men were going to Sadar upazila for joining the party's Khulna bound road march on Sunday morning.
Our Staff Correspondent in Khulna adds: Awami League has created a reign of terror in entire Bagerhat district particularly in Chitalmari upazila getting green signal from lawmaker of Bagerhat-1, said general secretary of Bagerhat district BNP Professor Ali Reaz Babu at a press conference at Khulna Press Club yesterday.
The BNP leader alleged that the terror had been let loose by AL cadres since a day before holding of the grand rally and road march programme of four-party alliance at Khulna Circuit House maidan.
AL cadres, aided by police and civil administration, attacked BNP, Jubo Dal and Chhatra Dal leaders and activists with lethal weapons without any provocation leaving over a hundred of them injured, he added.
He alleged in his written statement that the attackers also looted houses and business establishments belonging to BNP men in Chitalmari upazila and Bagerhat town.
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