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Police use water cannons to extinguish fire as a group of demonstrators set fire to the Jatiya Party central office at Kakrail in Dhaka Friday evening. | ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· photo

The central office of the Jatiya Party at Kakrail in the capital on Friday evening again came under attack by some unidentified people who vandalised and set the office afire.

Witnesses said that some political activists attending a solidarity rally at Shahbagh protesting against the attack on Gono Odhiker Parishad president Nurul Haque Nur took part in the attack.


They entered the office and vandalised furniture of the office and set fire to the office.

On information, local police came to the spot and took control of the office.

Protesting the attack,  some JP leaders and activists were staging a procession if front of their office at 9:00pm when this report was filed.

The Gono Odhikar Parishad has been holding demonstrations for a few days demanding ban on the Jatiya Party as it was an ally of the fascist Awami League as well as a partner in the AL-led grand political alliance.

Gono Odhikar Parishad central leader Abu Hanif told ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· in the evening that their party leaders and activists did not participate in the attack on the Jatiya Party central office.

But some unidentified angry people could be involved in the attack as the interim government was delaying imposing ban on the Jatiya Party, Abu Hanif added.

JP secretary general Shamim Haider Patwary said in the evening that he was not in the central office but heard that their office came under attack again. Earlier on August 29, protesters vandalised the party’s Kakrail office, prompting law enforcers to use sound grenades, water cannons, and batons to disperse the crowd after an arson attack.

On that day, members of the police and alleged supporters of Nurul Haque Nur locked into a clash in Bijoy Nagar area.

Following the altercation, members of the army and police allegedly attacked leaders and activists of the Gono Odhikar Parishad near their own office on the opposite side of the road.

Nur was waiting to hold a press conference in front of his own office, when joint forces swooped on him and his supporters.