In the Khulna City Corporation (KCC) election, BNP mayor candidate Nazrul Islam Manzur was found to have been attacked in the election.
On Thursday (03 May) at around 6pm, BNP activists said that seven activists of Chhatra Dal and Jubo Dal were wounded in the attack on Manjur connection procession at Alamnagar Bazar in Khalishpur, Khalishpur.
Public relations BNP organizing secretary Fakhrul Alam complained that after finishing mass contact at the ward no. 15 in the city, at 5 pm, distributing leaflets in the slums of the 13th ward of Alamnagar. The mayor candidate Nazrul Islam Monju was also present. During our mass contact, Awami League and Jubo League were performing the procession. From there, they were trying to provoke leaders and workers using awkward language.
He said that Mayor candidate Nazrul Islam Manju was discussing with the leaders and workers on both sides of the railway slum. Suddenly, the people of the ruling party led by Awami League joint general secretary Munshi Nazmul Alam Nazu, attacked the people of ruling Awami League 15 on the back of our mass contact. In this incident, seven leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami Alamin Talukder Prince, Juba Dal activist Abdus Samad were injured.
Awami League's local activist Golam Rabbani and Munshi Nazmul Alam said that some of the BNP's procession rally suddenly torn off the poster of the poster on the road, and during the incident. It caused tension between the two sides.
Khalishpur Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Sardar Mosharraf Hossain said that there was a tension between the two parties at Alamnagar Awami League and BNP procession. But the situation is calm now. Nobody was injured in this.