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JCD out to 'punish' B Chy, his men

It's our decision, says GS

STAFF CORRESPONDENT
A top leader of ruling BNP's student chapter yesterday vowed to "punish" former president Badruddoza Chowdhury for launching an alternative political platform and branded him as a "traitor", a day after a mob pelted him with stones and bricks.
"We have a party decision to resist Badruddoza and his supporters wherever we find them," Azizul Bari Helal, general secretary of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), told The Daily Star by phone yesterday evening.
Asked to comment on JCD activists' alleged roles in Thursday's series of attacks on Badruddoza and his supporters, Helal said, "Our supporters were out in the streets and did what was necessary."
The attacks on the key figures of
the new platform and their adherents injured over 300 people and ruined a rally at Muktangan, where Badruddoza was due to launch the alternative platform for politics.
Asked to confirm the identity of some alleged attackers whose photographs were published in national dailies yesterday, Helal ducked the point but said: "We have handed them (Badruddoza and his supporters) a minor punishment."
Vows Helal: "Be sure, the JCD will spare none of them and make sure they are duly punished for betraying with Ziaur Rahman (founder of the BNP)." "The JCD will not compromise on dealing with national traitors."
On the apparent failure of Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) to make sure Muktangan is free for Badruddoza to hold his rally, as it
gave him permission, Mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka, also BNP city unit president, said: "It is not our responsibility."
"The DCC doesn't take that responsibility and nor does it have the mechanism to do so. It is the responsibility of law enforcers," Khoka said.
"No-one needs permission for any programme there," Khoka said, adding the DCC gave Badruddoza permission as he had asked for it. "The DCC doesn't resist anyone to hold programme at Muktangan."
On why the DCC did not then allow Badruddoza to hold a programme there on March 9, Khoka said in an apparently conflicting statement the former president did not seek permission.
Activists of a faceless organisation, Homeless People's Group, overran Muktangan on Thursday with the backing of police to stage an anti-hartal demonstration.
Undercover JCD activists chased away people whom they suspected as alternative stream supporters from entering the rally ground.