There was a lot of tension in the air in Chattogram's Bahaddarhat area, as BNP activists clashed with police during a procession Sunday.
At one stage, in the evening close to Bahaddarhat Mor, the BNP men resorted to throwing brickbats at the police, said OC Khairul Islam of Chandgaon police station.
However, both sides managed to come away without any injuries, and no one was arrested in this connection.
OC Khairul did however say that legal action will be taken over what he called 'the attack' on them.
According to the police, leaders and activists of the metropolitan BNP brought out a procession from the Bakalia Access Road of the city. When it reached Bahaddarhat area, the party activists apparently started throwing brickbats at the police without any provocation, in the law enforcers' version of events.
The BNP had a different version of how things unfolded.
Idris Ali, in-charge of the BNP press secretary's office in the city, told UNB that the procession was over, and the Metropolitan BNP chapter's member secretary, Abul Hashem Bakkar, was delivering the closing speech standing on the road divider, when police baton-charged the attendees with a view to dispersing them and thus breaking up the rally.
"At that time, one or two brickbats were thrown," admitted Idris. "But no one was injured."