Jubo Dal leader shot dead in Rajbari

Rajbari BNP calls half-day hartal for tomorrow

Unknown assailants gunned down a former convener of Rajbari district unit of Jubo Dal, the youth front of BNP, following an intra-party clash early Friday.
Deceased SM Shamsul Alam alias Bablu was also a member of Rajbari district unit of BNP, reports our Kushtia correspondent.
Protesting the killing, Rajbari BNP unit called a half-day hartal in the district for Saturday.
Police arrested Arif Biswas, a Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) activist, for his alleged involvement with the killing. He was being interrogated at Sadar Police Station.
Sahab Uddin Khalifa, officer-in-charge (OC) of Rajbari Sadar Police Station, said some miscreants opened fire on Bablu around 1:30am when he was returning home at Binodpur area in the town from Rajbari bazaar.
The incident took place just 200 yards off the Binodpur police camp.
Hearing the sound of shooting, a team from the police camp rushed to the spot and took Bablu to Rajbari Sadar Hospital where duty doctors declared him dead around 2:15am, the OC said.
According to the OC, Bablu was a victim of an intra-party clash between Ali Newaz Mohammad Khayiam, former lawmaker of Rajbari-1 and also the president of Rajbari district unit Jubo Dal, and Harunur Rashid, general secretary of the unit.
Bablu belonged to Khayiam group.
The victim had a rivalry with a group of JCD and Jubo Dal men of the district led by Mir Enam Ali Bachchu, an incumbent councillor of Rajbari municipality and also a Jubo Dal leader, over establishment supremacy in the area, the OC said.
“We are investigating all the matters if those have any link with the killing,” Rajbari Superintendent of police Rezaul Haque said.
The killing was pre-planned and the killers were waiting there for the victim, the SP added.
The hartal was declared through a press conference at the home of Khayiam in the town.
In the press conference, Khayiam claimed that ‘opponents’ carried out the murder. He demanded immediate arrest of the killers.
Earlier on March 2, miscreants had opened fire on Bablu’s younger brother Shahidul Islam Simul in the town. Simul however narrowly escaped the death.
Family of Bablu claimed that Enam was behind the attempt to murder of Simul.
After the incident, Bablu had filed an attempt to murder case accusing Enam.