An overwrought situation is prevailing in Hizla upazila town of Barisal as district administration has imposed section 144 for indefinite period from on Sunday morning and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal called hartal six-hour hartal today, protesting attack on its activists by Bangladesh Chhatra League men.
The section 144 was imposed in the area as Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, student wing of opposition BNP and Bangladesh Chhatra League, student wing of the ruling Awami League, called counter programmes at the same venue and time on Sunday.
The JCD called hartal for today protesting impose of section 144 that started on Sunday 6am and attack on its activists by BCL men.
Deputy Commissioner AKM Ehsan Ullah acknowledging the facts said special police team has been sent to the area to avoid any untoward incident.
Mustafizur Rahman, acting upazila nirbahi officer of Hizla, said section 144 imposed as JCD called upazila and Hizla college unit’s JCD workers conference and BCL called anti-fundamentalist rally at Iddo Society ground in Khunna area of the upazila town on Sunday.
Mahmud Hasan Mamun, Barisal district JCD convener, alleged that AL-BCL activists led by Hizla upazila
AL secretary attacked BNP-JCD activists at about 9pm on Saturday and ransacked stage that left eight people injured.
Of the injured – Advocate Nurul Alam Razu, upazila BNP organising secretary, Dewan Monir, upazila JCD president, Sajal Khan, Jubo Dal activist, received first aid.
District JCD leaders held a protest rally in Muladi on Sunday morning protesting impose of the section 144.
Shawkat Anwar, officer-in-charge of Hizla police station, said additional police have been deployed in the town to keep the situation under control.
Moreover, five JCD activists injured in attack allegedly by BCL activists at Muladi upazila on Sunday noon.
Sources said when Omar Faruk Safin, vice-president of JCD central committee, along with leaders and activists were returning to Muladi upazila town after holding workers meeting at Kazir Char, a group of BCL men swooped on them at about 1:30pm.
Advocate Talukdar Md Yunus, lawmaker and district AL secretary and Abdur Razzak, district BCL secretary, said attack was happened due to factional disputes of BNP-JCD.
AL and BCL have no relation with the attack, they claimed.
