Miscreants allegedly vandalised and grabbed the central office of Workers Party of Bangladesh, a partner in the Awami League-led alliance, in the Topkhana Road area in the capital Dhaka on Wednesday night.
The Awami League regime was ousted on August 5 past year in a student-led mass uprising.
The Workers Party of Bangladesh, in a press release, alleged that about 100 people attacked and carried out vandalism at the party office between 11:00pm on Wednesday and 12:30am on Thursday in the name of resisting the 鈥榣ockdown programme鈥� announced on social media by the Awami League, activities of which are now suspended.
During the vandalism, the crowd chanted slogans demanding capital punishment against the party president, Rashed Khan Menon, who is now in jail in connection with a murder case filed after the fall of the Awami League regime.
The party also alleged that the mob beat up its office assistant Monir Hossain and handed him over to the police, showing him as a criminal.
The miscreants allegedly grabbed the party office by locking it and hanging a signboard of the 鈥楢nti-fascist Research Centre鈥� on the door.
The politburo of the party issued the statement on Thursday, condemning the incident.
It alleged that interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus paved 鈥榯he way for new fascism instead of establishing democracy鈥�.
The party鈥檚 politburo demanded justice and a proper investigation into the incident.
Monir was released from the Shahbagh police station on Thursday afternoon, said the party鈥檚 media department convener Mostafa Alamgir Ratan.
Shahbagh police station officer-in-charge Md Khalid Mansur could not be reached for comments on the issue over phone despite several attempts.
The vandalism at the Workers Party office occurred against the backdrop of several incidents of arson and crude bomb attacks across the country after the Awami League announced a 鈥楧haka lockdown鈥� on social media for Thursday.
The day was scheduled for announcing the date of delivering the International Crimes Tribunal鈥檚 verdict in a crimes against humanity case against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, also the Awami League president, and her aides for atrocities committed across the country during the uprising.
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 set November 17 for delivering the verdict.
