About 15 people were injured in violent clashes after a procession of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party came under attack allegedly from the activists of the ruling party-backed Chhatra League in Jhenaidah town on Tuesday afternoon.
Local leaders of the BNP alleged that the ruling party supporters had swooped on its procession without provocation triggering the clash.
Witnesses said 10 BNP activists and five Chhatra League men were injured in the clash.
BNP district unit president Mashiur Rahman, also former lawmaker, said that the party's local unit had brought out the procession from their district office at about 11:00am in protest at the filing of a graft against the party chairperson Khaleda Zia by the Anti-Corruption Commission.
When the rally was entering the town, it ran into a police cordon and within minutes a group of BCL men attacked the rally, he said.
Of the injured district Sramik Dal president Abu Bakar Siddique and others were taken to Jhenaidah General Hospital.
Officer-in-charge of Jhenaidah police station Iqbal Bahar Chowdhury said that police forces were deployed in the town to avoid any further trouble. The situation was under control, he added.
Source : New Age
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