Police arrested a local BNP leader from Kurigram Municipality on Friday in a case filed over sabotage. Md Nur Khaleque Moyna, co-organizing secretary of Kurigram District unit Jubo Dal, was arrested from Zia Bazar area of the municipality, Masudur Rahman, officer-in-charge (OC) of Kurigram Sadar Police Station, confirmed. Rail track bolts stolen from Kurigram-Rangpur railway line According to the police, a case was filed under the Special Powers Act at the Sadar police station in November this year.  Nur Khaleque was accused in that case. Poor people suffer due to severe cold in Kurigram Regarding this, the President of Kurigram Jubo Dal, Md Raihan Kabir, tried to contact several times on his mobile phone to get comments on but failed. The BNP leader was sent to jail on Saturday morning, said the OC. Severe cold grips Kurigram as Mercury drops to 11 degrees Celsius

A leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s youth wing Jubo Dal was shot and stabbed allegedly by a leader of Jubo League, the ruling party's youth wing,  over control of Tongibari upazila on Tuesday. Mollahkandi Union unit Jubo Dal President Zia Sarkar, 45, was shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) from Munshiganj General Hospital due to his critical condition. The victim’s elder brother Babul Sarkar said Jubo League leader Shipon Patowary, younger brother of the union parishad chairman and himself a Jubo League leader Ripon Patowary, picked up Zia in a microbus when he was on his way to pick up his daughter from a school nearby Beshnal Culvert. Read more: JCD leader shot dead in clash with cops over arrest of a BNP leader in Brahmanbaria Identifying themselves as members of Detective Branch, the Jubo League men took Zia to the Amghata area near the house of Chairman Ripon and shot him in his legs and stabbed him, he said, adding that later they left him in a critical condition there. Hearing screams, locals rushed to the spot and took him to the General Hospital. Dr Shibal Basak, a physician at the hospital, said they found two bullets in the legs and marks of injuries of lethal weapons were also spotted on his body. Bullet-hit Zia, a brick and sand businessman by profession, was referred to DMCH for better treatment, the physician said. Tarekuzzaman, officer-in-charge of Sadar police station, said drives are on to nab the people involved with the incident immediately. Sadar Circle Additional Superintendent of Police Khandaker Khairul Islam said they primarily came to know that some people identifying themselves as DB picked up Zia and beat him.   Read more: ‘Terrorist’ killed in Chapainawabganj ‘gunfight’ Locals said there had been a longstanding dispute between Ripon and former union parishad chairman Mohsina Haque Kolpona over controlling the area. Babul said his brother was attacked by the followers of Ripon as he is a supporter of Kolpona.

A Dhaka court on Sunday placed seven persons, including the president and vice president of Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal, the BNP's youth front, on four days' remand each in a sabotage case filed at Paltan model police station. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shafi Uddin pronounced the order after investigation officer Sub Inspector Bijan Kumar Biswash of Paltan police station produced the accused before court and sought seven-day remand for interrogation. The remanded are- Jubo Dal President Sultan Salahuddin Tuku , Vice President Noor Islam Nayan Mokhles Mia, Mosharof Hossain Khokan, Joj Mia, Farid Uddin Rana and Md Abdullah. Read more: Jubo Dal president, VP arrested while returning from Rajshahi rally Senior advocate Borhan Uddin appealed for bail of the accused seeking cancellation of the remand. The defense lawyer said the government is indiscriminately filing cases against BNP activists and leaders fearing the December 10 rally of BNP in Dhaka. Police are also arresting the BNP activists in these false cases and seeking remand, he said in his appeal. Dhaka Metropolitan public Prosecutor Abdullah Abu represented the state during the hearing. According to the complaint, the accused brought out a torch procession at the city's Paltan area illegally, gave provocative statements against the government, vandalized vehicles and injured police members in an attack. Read more: BNP leader Ishraque comes under attack by BCL in city SI Kamrul Hasan filed a case against 30 people including BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and also accused 150 more anonymous people in this regard at Paltan police station. On December 3, around 11 pm, Jubo Dal leader Tulku and Nayan were arrested from the capital's Amin bazar area while returning from BNP’s Rajshahi divisional rally.

Three BNP leaders including Sultan Salahuddin Tuku, president of Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal, the BNP's youth front, were arrested while returning from the party's divisional rally held in Rajshahi on Saturday. The two other arrestees are Jubo Dal vice president Noor Islam Nayan and Tuku's personal assistant Mokhles. BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi confirmed this matter at 11:10 pm Saturday night. He said that when they reached Dhaka's Amin Bazar area on their way back from the Rajshahi public rally, DB police waylaid and arrested them. Rizvi strongly condemned and protested this incident and demanded their immediate release. Read more: Crude bomb blast in front of BNP’s Nayapaltan office Sources said police have started an arrest drive across the country ahead of BNP's rally scheduled on December 10. A search operation is also underway in the capital. After the cocktail explosion in front of the BNP central office in the capital’s Nayapaltan on Saturday evening, police arrested several people from there as well, sources added. BNP's Naya Paltan office has also been kept under police surveillance. Read more: BNP won't be allowed to orchestrate violence surrounding December 10 rally: Quader    

Shahidul Islam Shaon, a Jubo Dal activist, who died following a clash with police during a BNP rally in Munshiganj's Muktarpur on September 21, died from “head injuries, not from bullet wounds”, Mahfuzur Rahman Al Mamun, superintendent of Munshiganj Police, said. “It was mentioned in his death certificate that Shaon died after being hit by bullets but that is not true, and we are investigating why the death certificate says so,” he said while talking at a press briefing after receiving the post-mortem report. The post-mortem and viscera reports were provided on Tuesday where it was mentioned that Shaon died as he sustained “head injuries during the clash”, he added. On September 21, 50 people, including several policemen, were injured in a clash between police and BNP leaders and activists in Munshiganj’s Muktarpur over holding a rally of the party protesting price hike of fuel, daily essentials and the killing of three opposition leaders in Bhola and Narayanganj in police firing. Shaon was critically injured during the skirmish as police tried to stop the protest rally. Read: Police-BNP clash in Munshiganj: Injured Jubo Dal man dies at DMCH He succumbed to his injuries the following day. SP Mahfuzur Rahman said Shaon along with others were hurling brickbats towards police during the clash. “At one stage, he fell while trying to bring a stick. Smoke was billowing at that moment which went viral on social media. He was wounded by bricks thrown by other Jubo Dal activists,” he claimed.  

A case was filed against 5,000 unnamed people over the death of Jubo Dal activist Shaon in a clash between the law enforcers and BNP activists in Narayanganj Sadar upazila Thursday, police said. "Shaon's elder brother Milon Pradhan filed a complaint at Narayanganj Sadar Police Station Thursday night. After that, a first information report (FIR) was registered," Anisur Rahman Molla, officer-in-charge (OC) of the police station, said Friday. Read: Jubo Dal activist killed in N’ganj; BNP activists-police clash in parts of country "We will take legal action against those involved in the killing following an investigation," the OC added. Thursday, Shaon was killed and 50 people were injured in a clash between police and the BNP activists in Narayanganj as the law enforcers tried to prevent local BNP leaders and activists from holding a rally during their founding anniversary.

BNP on Friday announced an eight-member partial committee of its youth wing, Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal, as part of its move to overhaul the party and its associate bodies before the next general election. Sultan Salahuddin Tuku and Monayem Munna were made the president and the general secretary, respectively, of the central committee of Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal, the party's senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said in a release. A former president of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, Tuku was the general secretary of the previous committee of Jubo Dal. READ: Not Padma Bridge, massive plundering causes BNP’s heartburn: Fakhrul Besides, Mamun Hasa was made the senior vice-president, Nurul Islam Nayan the vice-president, Shafiqul Islam Milton the first joint general secretary, Golam Mawla Shaheen the second joint general secretary, Ishaq Sarker the organising secretary, and Kamruzzaman Dulal the office secretary of the eight-member Jubo Dal committee. Jubo Dal’s last committee was formed on January 17, 2017, with Saiful Islam Nirob as the president and Sultan Salahuddin Tuku as general secretary. As the party is preparing to wage a movement with a demand for holding the next parliamentary polls under a non-party neutral government, BNP has long been overhauling the party’s different units and associate bodies.

A Laxmipur court on Monday sentenced seven people to life term imprisonment in a case filed over killing a local Jubo Dal leader at Dattapara union in sadar upazila in 2011. District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Rahibul Islam passed the order acquitting one more accused of from the charges. The lifers are Md Aziz, former UP member of Dattapara Union, his son Md Sabuj, Billal Hossain Biplab, Md Ibrahim, Md Manik, Ismail Hossain and Abul Kashem. Ismail and Abul Kashem were present during the hearing while the other convicts remained absconding. Also read: Brahmanbaria AL leader murder: 13 to die, 8 get life term The convicts were  fined Tk 10,000 each, in default, to suffer one year more rigorous imprisonment. According to case statement, on June 4, 2011, Anwar Hossain, president of union unit of Jubo Dal, was sitting in his brother’s election campaign office at Dattapara Bazar when some miscreants attacked the office and shot him, leaving Anwar dead the spot. Also read: 9 to die, 22 get life term for killing BCL leader in Rajshahi A murder case was filed at sadar police station the following day against 25 named people and 12 unnamed people following a complaint lodged by Anwar’s brother Md Ashek-E-Elahi. On January 10, 2015, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police submitted the final investigation report at the court.

Fifteen people were injured in a clash between police and some leaders and activists of Jubo Dal at Anantapur in Kasba upazila headquarters on Monday. Witnesses said Masudul Haque Bhuiya, convener of upaizla unit Jubo Dal, along with his supporters brought out a procession over the approval of the new committee of Kasba Upazila and Municiplaity units in the morning. Read:BNP men clash with police in Chattogram: 7 detained When the procession reached in front of Adra Anantapur Government Primary School police obstructed it. At one stage, the activists of Jubo Dal threw brickbats targeting police, triggering a chase and counter-chase. Bureau chief of eastern region ATN News, Pijush Kanti Acharya and Somoy TV photo journalist Jewelur Rahman were among the injured. Read: BNP activists clash with police at Chandrima Udyan Alamgir Bhuiya, officer-in-charge of Kasba Police Station, said as the Jubo Dal leaders brought out the procession without prior permission police dispersed them.

BNP senior leader Mirza Abbas on Monday called upon their party leaders and activists to get united to ensure the fall of the current ‘repressive regime’ through a strong movement. “The country is now under the grip of a terrible evil force like the ghost of Sindbad of Arabic novel…this evil force has been oppressing the leaders and activists of different political parties, including BNP, to cover up its misdeeds,” he said. Also Read: Mirza Abbas, wife tested positive for coronavirus The BNP leader said, “I would like to say, our people, our leaders and workers must resist repressive acts. We’ll have to realise our right to speak and our freedom. That’s why we all need to be united.” He made the remarks while inaugurating food and clothes distribution programmes by BNP, Jubo Dal and Chhatra Dal at the party’s Nayapaltan central office, marking late party founder Ziaur Rahman’s 40th death anniversary. BNP senior leaders distributed food and clothes among the destitute at different points of the capital for the second day on Monday to mark Zia’s death anniversary. Zia founded BNP in 1978. He was assassinated by some army officers at Chittagong Circuit House on May 30, 1981. Abbas, a BNP standing committee member, accused the current government of plundering public money. “As long as they’re in power, the fate of people won’t be changed. Only some people will amass wealth depriving the common people under the current regime.” He claimed that people liberated the country under the leadership of BNP founder Zaiur Rahman. “The independence of this country was not achieved by Awami League. Those who didn’t liberate the country and those who only heard the story of independence have now imposed their misrule on us. We the BNP leaders and workers will surely change this situation and that day is not far away,” the BNP leader said.