The Jatiya Ganatantrik Party president, Khondkar Lutfar Rahman, was seriously injured in a knife attack outside the Gono Odhikar Parishad office at Paltan on Monday night.
He was immediately taken to Islami Bank Hospital in Kakrail, where he is currently receiving treatment.
According to JAGPA general secretary Zakir Hossain Riaz, a group of unidentified assailants attacked Lutfar indiscriminately with sharp weapons at around 7:40pm as he was leaving the office of Gono Odhikar Parishad after a meeting.
JAGPA, a member of the BNP-aligned nationalist alliance, had its president join a meeting on Monday at the Gono Odhikar Parishad office, along with leaders of 22 political parties, including the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Jamaat-e-Islami and the National Citizen Party, to demand the arrest of those responsible for the recent attack on Gono Odhikar Parishad president Nurul Haque Nur.
In a statement, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir strongly denounced the attack, describing it as a deep conspiracy and warning that it could be part of a plot to derail the upcoming national election.
He called on the government to take responsibility by directing law enforcement agencies to swiftly arrest those involved and ensure justice.
鈥楾he unity of all democratic political parties will be the only way to resist anti-democratic conspiracies and establish the people鈥檚 democratic aspirations,鈥� Fakhrul said.
Meanwhile, more than 50 leaders and activists of Gono Odhikar Parishad were injured on Friday evening when a clash broke out between the activists of the Jatiya Party and the Gono Odhikar Parishad in front of the JP central office at Bijoynagar in Dhaka.
At one stage, law enforcers charged batons on Nur, also a former Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union vice-president, and others.
