STAFF CORRESPONDENT

Awami League leaders and activists could not hold an event at Zero Point in the capital’s Gulistan yesterday amid strong resistance by students, and activists of different political parties, including the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami.

The students and political activists beat up at least 10 people, including two women, in the Gulistan area on suspicion that they were members of AL and its front organisations.

Five of them –– Raju Ahmed Miran, Ridoy, Rasel Haider, Rakib, and Mohammad Ali –– were treated at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

The crowds swooped on Miran and Ridoy as Another

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