Jubo League, BCL men swoop on UNO in Satkhira
Shyamnagar Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) was harassed and his workplace was vandalised allegedly by the leaders and activists of Jubo League and Chhatra League over trifling matter.
Md Taribur Rahman, Shyamnagar UNO, was presiding over a preparatory meeting with the local elites ahead of the National Victory Day on December 16 at the auditorium of the UNO office in the morning.
Minutes before the end of the meeting, about a hundred of ruling party supporters, led by Abdus Sattar, organising secretary of the district unit of Jubo League and Mizanur Rahman, president of upazila unit of BCL, swooped on the meeting venue.
They engaged in altercation with the UNO for his alleged failure to take any steps to remove barricades from the roads put up by the opposition alliance supporters during their blockade programmes.
As they tried to physically assault the UNO, his colleagues and staffs took him to a safer place.
During the melee, the ruling party men also vandalised the furniture and windowpanes of the office.
Jubo League general secretary of upazila unit Mosharaf Hassain alleged that the barricades were causing sufferings to the people. Despite repeated complaints, the UNO failed to take any steps in this regard, he said.
Shyamnagar UNO Md Taribur Rahman, however, denied the allegations.
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