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SUSPENSION OF BNP BODY

Sylhet city tense. tight security

STAFF CORRESPONDENT. Sylhet
Security measures have been beefed up in and around the city due to a rivalry among the ruling BNP factions in the wake of Wednesday's suspension of the party's district convening committee, police said.
Speculations were rife that city unit BNP President lawmaker Ariful Haque Chowdhury is losing his directorship at Jalalabad Gas Transmission and Distribution Systems Limited. But the gas authorities have not announced anything in this regard.
Lawmakers M Ilyas Ali, Shafi Ahmed Chowdhury and Syed Mokbul Hossain on Thursday met a number of BNP top brass in the capital. They raised a barrage of allegations against Ariful and other people blessed by Finance Minister M Saifur
Rahman and his son Naser Rahman, MP.
Ariful, also a ward commissioner of Sylhet City Corporation (SCC), was tipped to be a director at Jalalabad Gas after being nominated by the finance minister a few years ago.
Meantime, police on Thursday arrested SCC Ward Commissioner Farhad Chowdhury Shamim on charge of looting cellphone sets worth Tk 16 lakh the previous day.
Shamim alleged he was arrested on instructions of the finance minister and the city unit BNP chief for his relations with lawmaker Ilyas.
But police claimed they have proof of his involvement in the looting. The police have started the process of filing three cases against him including one under the Speedy Trial Act.
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Shamim's men and agitating locals took out a procession, blockaded Airport Road and fought with police hours after the arrest. But police baton-charged to disperse the agitators and cleared the road after an hour.
A 501-member committee formed yesterday to free Shamim held a protest rally yesterday after the Juma prayers in front of the ward commissioner's office. It also holds a press conference today at Sylhet Press Club.
Lawmaker Ilyas in a statement demanded immediate release of Shamim and putting end to harassment of BNP men in Sylhet.
Meanwhile, leaders of city unit BNP took out a procession welcoming the suspension of the convening body.
BNP leaders and activists under the banner of district unit held a rally at Central Shaheed Minar to protest against the recent comments by Syed Mokbul against the finance minister. Dilder Hossain Selim, MP, among others, addressed the rally.