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5 hurt as AL, JP clash

29 June 2009, 17:00 PM

Our Correspondent, Nilphamari

Five people were injured in a clash between the activists of Awami League (AL) and Jatiya Party (JP-Ershad) at Khutamara in Jaldhaka upazila over rural development programme under Relief and Disaster Management Department. Sources said the AL and JP activists had an altercation over the issue as JP lawmaker from Nilphamari-3 (Jaldhaka and Kishoreganj) constituency took up development programme in JP-dominated area of the upazila. At one stage, the AL men confined Khutamara Union JP President Abdul Baki, also the headmaster of Rahmania High School, to a room in nearby Tengonmari Bazaar, leading to a clash between the two sides. Students of Rahmania High School also brought out a procession protesting assault on their headmaster. The JP activists joined them. Later, the JP men attacked the house of Naru Gopal Roy, general secretary of BCL local unit, and assaulted Naru's mother Sumita Bala, 65. She was admitted to Jaldhaka Upazila Health Complex.