At least 20 people were injured as the activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party clashed with the supporters of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami over the formation of a secondary school's management committee under Sadar upazila in Jhenaidah on Thursday.
The injured people include Masudur Rahman, Rahmat Ullah, Golam Mostafa, and Imdadur Rahman of the BNP, and Shamim Hossain, Mukhtar Biswas, Safar Ali, Tota Mia, and Zahurul Islam of Jamaat.
Fifteen of the injured people were admitted to Jhenaidah Sadar Hospital for treatment, officials said.
The violence occurred at about 9:00am at Islamapur-Horipur Kobi Fozor Ali Secondary School, the police said.
Quoting local people, Jhenaidah police station officer-in-charge Abdullah Al-Mamun said that there had been a dispute between Moharaj union BNP president Shahjahan Ali and Jamaat supporter Zahurul Islam, who is also a former leader of Islami Chhatra Shibir, over the formation of a four-member ad-hoc school management committee with Zahurul as its convener.
The committee was formed about four months ago, he said.
On Thursday morning, he said, Zahrul and his supporters arrived at the school premises, and Shahjahan鈥檚 supporters locked in an altercation with Zahurul.
At one stage of the altercation, the groups swooped on each other, and the clash left at least 20 of both groups injured, he said.
The police officer said that locals rescued the injured people and took them to Jhenaidah Sadar Hospital for treatment.
He said that they, receiving the information, rushed to the spot and brought the situation under control.
OC Mamun said that no case was lodged until evening, and none was arrested in this connection.
Zahurul told 抖阴精品 that the school management committee was formed following an appropriate process and alleged that BNP activists launched the attack in a planned way.
Shahjahan, however, alleged that no sooner had they gone to the school than Zahurul and his supporters, armed with sticks and sharp weapons, launched a pre-planned attack on them.
He claimed that the Jamaat supporters had kept the school committee occupied by force and were disrupting academic activities.