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Raushan addresses Mymensingh rally

JP cars, meeting venue attacked: One killed
MYMENSINGH, July 5: Raushan Ershad, the wife of deposed president; HM Er-shad, had a rough sailing in active politics as massive violence before her first public meeting here today left one dead and many injured, reports UNB.
activist, was killed and 15 others were injured when an aimed group attacked a motorcade carrying JP leaders and workers from Dhaka at the Zilla School crossing at about 3:30 pm.
Swapan, repeatedly hacked by the miscreants, was rushed to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital where the attending doctors declared him dead.
At least five vehicles, in eluding a microbus carrying lournaliSts were badly dam aged in the attack. The car. carrying JP central leaders Anwar Hossain Manju and Shah Moazzem Hossain also came under attack. They could not attend the meeting as they drove back to the capital following the eruption of violence.
Raushan Ershad, who was jn fact unaware of the killing, appeared on the stage at Circuit House maidan at about 4 pm wearing a cream-colour saree. She was not in the convoy as she had reached the town earlier at about 2 pm.
Earlier, at about 3 pm, a group of gunmen also at tacked the Rostrum at the meeting venue, firing about a dozen shots and blasting 25 crackers. Five people injured there.
"Mymensingh is mt birth place. 1 have every right to do politics here, but they want to snatch my rights,” a visibly perturbed Raushan told the meeting.
She claimed that at least 50 |P workers were injured in the attacks and Mamed the government for the trouble
Turning to the issue of IP Chairman Hussain Muhan mad Ershad serving in rail on various charges, Begum Er shad sard her husband had handed over power peacefully in greater interest of democ racy and constitutional pro cess
But, she alleged, he (Er shad! is now subiect to mental torture in jail.
"it has already been proved by the Supreme Court judge ment in the arms case that Ershad is inriStent He will also Ik acquitted in other cases. Raushan hoped
She alleged that her hus band bad been implicated in the Manzui murder case as part of conspiracy hatched by the BNP government
The government will be compelled to release Ershad in the face of people s demand We 11 bring him out from the jail," she told the meeting amid clappings from her audi ence of a few thousand peo pie
1 started active politics today with a vision to work together with the IP workers and get the party Chairman released from jail," said Raushan, trying to come to the helm of Jatiya Party in ab sence of her husband
Presided over by IP district president Khurram Khan Chowdhury, the meeting was also addressed by party cen tral leaders Mahbubur Rah man, A H M Gaffar, Mah bubul Haque Dolan, Ruhul Amin Howlader, Hasanuddin Sarker and Kazi Firoze Rashid and local leaders Imdadul Hauue Mukul, Abbu Musa Sarker and Jahangir Ali Sarker.
Meanwhile: Acting Chairman of Jatiya Party Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury strongly condemned the killing of a Chhatra Samaj leader bv armed activist of the BNP in Mymensingh today
Swapan Kumar Ghosh was knifed to death when the BNP activists allegedly attacked a bus carrying JP workers to Raushan Ershad s public meet mg
In an initial statement, Mizan urged democratic people and forces to protest this political killing in the interest of democracy.
He also demanded arrest and punishment of the killers.