By means of Sahidul Hasan Khokon: An opposition activist died and a number of other others sustained accidents when police clashed with indignant activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Birthday party (BNP) in Dhaka’s Paltan house. The conflict between the police and activists erupted after the BNP introduced a rally on December 10.
“An activist of the BNP was once shot lifeless in entrance of the birthday celebration place of work at Paltan house in Dhaka. A number of other people had been dropped at Dhaka Scientific School Health facility from Naya Paltan house following the clashes, “Police Outpost Inspector Bachchu Mia instructed India Lately.
“Docs mentioned that 32-year-old Mokbul had a bullet wound on his frame and died,” Inspector Bachchu Miah, leader of the sanatorium’s police outpost mentioned.
3 others injured within the incident had been known as Rony, Monir and Iqbal and are present process remedy at a sanatorium.The violence comes forward of the birthday celebration’s divisional rally within the capital on Saturday.
The clashes persevered for hours and police used teargas shells to disperse the group (Photograph: India Lately)
On Wednesday, tensions flared up within the capital in regards to the upcoming rally and the activists from the birthday celebration began accumulating at central places of work.
CLASH AHEAD OF PARTY’S PLANNED RALLY
The violence comes amid brewing tensions in Bangladesh over the deliberate rally of former top minister Khaleda Zia on Saturday as a part of their intensifying marketing campaign in opposition to Top Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ruling Awami League, PTI reported. The BNP has known as for a big anti-government rally in Dhaka on December 10.
Birthday party leaders have declared that the federal government will lose energy after this rally. The BNP had boycotted the previous two common elections in 2014 and 2018, claiming that no election conserving the incumbent authorities in energy could be honest or credible.
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The activists blocked the street in entrance of places of work and chanted slogans, witnesses mentioned. A lot of police group of workers had been deployed on within sight roads to take care of the regulation and order state of affairs.
The conflict between BNP supporters and police began at round 3 pm and when police lathi charged them, the activists began throwing bricks and bats. The law enforcement officials, in retaliation, then resorted to rubber bullets and teargas shells in an try to disperse the group.
SWAT participants had been noticed looking to deliver the placement underneath regulate. The clashes persevered for hours whilst SWAT groups and a number of other platoons of rebellion police surrounded the BNP place of work, positioning water cannons.
‘BNP MEN EXPLODED COCKTAILS’
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Khandker Golam Faruq mentioned {that a} pressure was once performed within the BNP’s Naya Paltan head place of work when they gained data that they saved rice, pulse, sticks and cocktails.
“Lately was once an place of work day. They demonstrated with out taking any prior permission. SWAT and M-16 had been used in opposition to their try to dedicate subversive actions,” Khandker Golam Faruq instructed journalists.
The DMP commissioner mentioned the BNP males exploded cocktails from their birthday celebration place of work and because of this the pressure was once performed.
“We beefed up safety by way of expanding the selection of police group of workers. It was once an authentic day, and so they (BNP) did not take prior permission to carry the rally”, he mentioned.
Replying to a query about whether or not a BNP activist was once killed, the police officer mentioned that they might now not ascertain the ideas.
“Senior officials had been deployed to deliver the placement underneath regulate,” mentioned Akram Hossain, responsibility officer at Paltan Police Station. The clashes disrupted site visitors from Fakirapul to the Nightingale intersection.
The BNP activists had ducked into alleys to flee the police and persevered to throw brickbats on the regulation enforcers. At one level, police entered the alleys and beat them.
A lot of police group of workers had been at the major street at Naya Paltan and armoured police automobiles rumbled into the world as a backup drive.
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6 SENIOR BNP LEADERS DETAINED
Six senior BNP leaders had been detained over the conflict between BNP activists and police within the capital’s Naya Paltan house on Wednesday.
The six detainees had been known as Dhaka Metropolitan South BNP Convener Abdus Salam, North BNP Convener Aman Ullah Aman, Senior Joint Secretary Common Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Joint Secretary Common Khairul Kabir Khokon, Khaleda Zia’s particular assistant Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas and Exposure Secretary Shaheed Uddin Chowdhury Annie.
Previous on Wednesday night time, police arrested BNP Dhaka Metropolitan North BNP Convener Aman Ullah Aman from the BNP central place of work in Dhaka. Sooner than that, BNP Senior Joint Secretary Common Ruhul Kabir Rizvi was once arrested from the similar place of work on Wednesday.
Shayrul Kabir Khan, a member of the BNP’s media cellular, mentioned that the police have arrested a minimum of 100 activists, together with Aman Ullah Aman and Ruhul Kabir Rizvi. Then again, no selection of detentions or arrests had been showed by way of the police.
Led by way of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Joint Commissioner (Operations) Biplob Kumar Sarkar, a unit of Motijheel Department of DB entered the BNP central place of work at about 5 pm to habits a raid. The leaders and activists who closed the door throughout the BNP place of work had been arrested.
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‘BNP HAS STARTED TERROR ACTIVITIES’
Awami League Common Secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday mentioned the BNP began terror actions at the streets prior to its rally to be hung on December 10.
” The BNP needs to occupy the streets and Dhaka on December 10. Someday in the past, I were given the scoop that the BNP had attacked the police in Naya Paltan. Folks know why they need to cling a rally in Naya Paltan. As a result of they are able to use guns and perform terrorism temporarily from there,”Street delivery and bridges minister Obaidul Quader mentioned whilst addressing a grand public rally on the Sheikh Kamal World Cricket Stadium.
Top Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, who was once the executive visitor, addressed the rally organised by way of Cox’s Bazar District Awami League.
Pointing to BNP Secretary Common Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, the Awami League common secretary mentioned, “Fakhrul Saheb, do not threaten to occupy Dhaka, I need to say that our leaders and staff might be on guard within the city, districts, upazilas, wards and neighbourhoods”.
Addressing the birthday celebration leaders and staff, Quader mentioned: “There’s no selection to solidarity for our lifestyles. It’s not that i am a blind supporter of someone. I talk for individuals who paintings. There’s no selection to public chief Sheikh Hasina”.
The sport might be performed this December, all the way through the following election and actions, he mentioned, including that the sport additionally might be performed in opposition to cash laundering and stealing, vote rigging, Hawa Bhaban, corruption and fireplace terrorism.
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GOVT STAGED CLASH TO FOIL RALLY, SAYS BNP
In the meantime, BNP Secretary Common Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday claimed that the violent conflict between BNP activists and police out of doors the birthday celebration’s central place of work at Nayapaltan was once deliberate by way of the federal government to foil the birthday celebration’s upcoming divisional rally in Dhaka on December 10.
“I went to Naya Paltan and attempted to go into my birthday celebration place of work after taking permission from the house minister and the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner. Nonetheless, police officers barred me from going within, which is completely unacceptable in a democratic nation,” Fakhrul mentioned, whilst sitting at the footpath out of doors the BNP’s central place of work after the violence.
Fakhrul added that the federal government may have another in poor health reason in the back of the day’s conflict.
“I’ve known as upon the house minister and the DMP commissioner to withdraw police from the world instantly and repair a calm surroundings right here. We’re going to undoubtedly cling the federal government answerable for as of late’s sudden incident,” Fakhrul added.
Fakhrul additional mentioned that the federal government has dedicated a heinous crime by way of letting police raid the BNP’s place of work.
“Handiest the police will be capable of inform if there was once any bomb within our birthday celebration place of work or now not. By means of raiding our place of work and planting explosives in there, police have destroyed democratic rules,” Fakhrul mentioned.
Requested concerning the allegation that BNP activists had entered the place of work wearing baggage containing explosives, Fakhrul strongly denied the allegation, pronouncing that it was once police who had entered the place of work with baggage. The BNP chief additionally mentioned that the Awami League is a political birthday celebration which often deceives other people.
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