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BNP demonstrators in city teargassed

By Staff Correspondent
Police used tear gas and batons to disperse BNP supporters demonstrating in the city's Najirabazar area yesterday, injuring several persons including a ward commissioner.
Police said the trouble broke out when nearly two thousand BNP supporters led by the par ty's city unit convener Sadek Hossain Khoka. MP. were stopped at the Najirabazar road intersection while they were going towards the Kazi Alauddin Road in a procession. There was a scuffle between police and Sadek Hossain Khoka when police tried to stop the demonstra tors. Police said they appre
hended that they were going towards the family home of City Mayor Mohammad Hanif at Kazi Alauddin Road, protesting demolition of a BNP office at Bangshal on Thursday by the City Corporation.
Clashes broke out on the narrow road intersection and spread to the alleyways when Slice swung into action using tons and tear gas to disperse the demonstrators.
Police picked up five persons. But the agitated BNP supporters blocked the streets and prevented the police van carrying the detained persons from leave the area.
Further clashes were averted when police negotiated with the BNP leaders and local elders and released the arrested persons after taking personal bonds.
A BNP press release later said the procession by Kotwali and Sutrapur thana BNP units was brought out from its city office at Nayabazar as part of its earlier programme of demonstrations. It came under baton charge when it ap-groached the Kazi Alaudain
The press release said Ll-aquat All Commissioner of Ward No 77 and city BNP leaders Abu Mainuddin, Advocate Habibur Rahman Mandal and Ms Razia Alim were injured in the police action.
Later the BNP supporters gathered at the Bangshal crossing where city BNP convener Sadek Hossain Khoka, MP. addressed them. He bitterly criticised the police action, which he claimed was without any provocation.
In a statement later. BNP Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan. MP. strongly condemned the police action. He said that BNP supporters were demonstrating as part of their earlier announced programme and that police action on such demonstration without any prior prohibitory order was threatening democracy. He urged the government to refrain from what he said such undemocratic and unconstitutional activities.
The press release said BNP units in Lalbagh, Mohammad-pur and Dhanmondi thanas also arranged demonstration* in their areas as part of a programme in the city yesterday to protest Wednesday's police action.