The source of the incident is 11/04/2024 A.H.: While buying meat at around 6:40 in the morning, there was an argument and a fight between the two workers Rashid and Jamal. The dispute between the two sides over the expansion of dominance in Bittipara village of Ujangram union of Kushtia Sadar Upazila EB Thana is very old. Ujangram Union Awami League General Secretary Abu Bakkar Siddique led on one side and Bittipara Ward Awami League President Abul Hossain former member. There was disagreement between these two sides over the village Eidgah Committee. Among them, there was a proposal to form a committee after the Eid prayer today. Palash Kanti Nath, Additional Superintendent of Police, Kushtia, opined that the clash was premeditated after seeing some videos from the scene. On their way to the Eidgah, they attacked the people of Bakkar group with indigenous weapons and lathis, in which Jawad Mandal, Abdullah, Shaheen and Babu of Bakkar group and Raja and Mintu of Hussain member group were injured. Among them, the condition of Joad Mandal is serious. He was hit with a sharp weapon. All the injured are hospitalized. The seriously injured person has been sent to Dhaka for better treatment. Later the supporters of Abu Bakkar Siddique clashed again with the supporters of Abul Hussain member in front of Shaheed oil pump on 24/04/2024 AH. Suffering serious injuries, both parties filed a case in the police station. Later, both parties were released on bail in the area. On Friday 17 May 2024, CNG driver Nasser (37), son of Abu Bakr panel supporter Ajib Mandal, was injured by a sharp weapon at the hands of members of Elo Patari Bhave Hossain’s group when he went to fetch water from the paddy field. The people of the opponent Abul Hossain member’s group hacked and injured Riazul (42), son of deceased Ziarat Mandal, from a place near the bridge adjacent to Brack Nasri, on Saturday, May 18.
The common people of the local area said that we low-income people are suffering a lot in this long-term recession. They said that two areas of the two groups are occupied by the supporters of Abu Bakkar Siddiq occupying the market and Abul Hossain the supporters of the former members occupying the agricultural fields. At present, the nature of the clashes in the village is that a major conflict can happen at any time. Want to change this situation. They also said, we are not able to stand at home, wherever we go out, we are afraid of what happens from home or what news comes. We are drawing the attention of senior officials of the administration to play a strict role in maintaining peace in the area.
Mamun Rahman, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Islami University Police Station, said that several people involved in the clash have been arrested. A case has been registered in each incident, and operations are underway to nab the others involved in the clash. Additional police are deployed in the village.
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