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| 50 hurt as JP men run amok | |
| 2012-01-29 | |
| [Bangla Daily Star] At least 50 people, including a politician, were hurt during a clash between Jatiya Party ...aka Jatiya Front; a political party established by Bangladictator Lieutenant General Hussain Muhammad Ershad in 1986 to lend a veneer of respectability to his rule. Since nobody was amused he was forced to resign by popular demand in 1990. The party remains in existence with about a dozen seats in Bangla's parliament... activists and employees of Rangpur Medical College Hospital in the northern city yesterday over the politician's "demand" for jobs for his men. Five truckload of stick-wielding Jatiya Party activists led by politician Hossain Mokbul Shahriar Asif, nephew of JP chief HM Ershad, went to Rangpur Medical College Hospital to demand 30 class-III and class-IV jobs for his party men around 12:30pm, sources and witnesses said.
Lawmaker Asif, eight journalists and seven coppers were among the injured, said Altaf Hossain, officer-in-charge of Rangpur Police Station. Of the injured, Asif with head injuries and a police sub-inspector were admitted to the very hospital while others received first aid. Witnesses said the MP along with his party workers and followers went to the hospital to demand the jobs for JP men. After the initial clash at the barricade, employees of the hospital unitedly put up a resistance. Around 1:30pm the JP activists tried to move towards the hospital again but police lobbed around 40 rounds of tear shells and charged truncheons on the JP activists and the hospital employees. Officer-in-Charge Altaf Hossain said they tossed in the clink Abu Bakar Siddique, the son of an employee of the hospital, in connection with attacking the politician. Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... Rangpur Medical College Hospital Director Toufiqul Islam told The Daily Star that Asif demanded 30 jobs for his men and as he refused, the MP and his men went to his office to assault him. He denied any irregularities in the appointments of the class-III and class-IV employees. Lawmaker Asif refused to make any comment on the incident. However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... JP Presidium member Moshiur Rahman Ranga and the party's Rangpur secretary general Mostafizar Rahman Mostafa denied allegations made by the hospital director. They too refused to comment on yesterday's incident. Convener of class-III and class-IV employees union of the hospital Mafizul Haque said Jatiya Party leaders and activists demanded jobs in the hospital and mounted pressure on the director which led to an altercation between them and resulted in yesterday's clash. The hospital authorities held exams on December 10 last year to appoint 186 class-III and -IV employees. The result was published two weeks later and their interviews were taken in December and January. It is now appointing the selected candidates. On January 19 leaders of Rangpur Medical College Hospital Bangladesh Chhatra League ... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ... unit and on January 25 Awami League Rangpur unit locked the director's office demanding jobs for their men, sources claimed. | |
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