Tensions flared between two factions of the Tablighi Jamaat real earlier than the Bishwa Ijtema – effect of residing to commence on 31 January – after five of Maulana Saad’s followers were attacked on their automobile nowadays (12 December).
The incident took score 22 situation at 1pm in the Monnu Gate effect of Tongi on the Dhaka-Mymensingh toll road.
Eyewitnesses said extra than 500 followers of Maulana Zubayer had gathered in the Monnu Gate effect in front of the Ijtema ground and blocked the toll road demanding punishment for Saad’s reported toughen for an attack in 2018, which left one useless and 200 injured.
On the identical time, a automobile carrying prime Tablighi clerics from the Indian Maulana Saad’s aspect became once passing via.
When the protesters noticed the auto, they attacked it, leaving five of us injured.
Later, the injured, together with Maulana Basir, 52, and Maulana Ataur, 54, were rescued and taken to Uttara Stylish Clinical College Clinical institution in Dhaka.
Soon after, Saad’s followers organised a press conference at the Ijtema Maidan and denounced the attack.
Md Sayem, the media coordinator of Saad’s faction, said, “We were returning to Tongi after exchanging views with the Gazipur deputy commissioner relating to the transfer of the Ijtema Maidan. At that point, the supporters of Zubair attacked our automobile on Tongi’s Set apart Facet toll road and vandalised it, injuring five of us. The location of two is severe.”
Meanwhile, Habibullah Raihan, media coordinator for Zubayer’s faction, said the allege started when one in every of Saad’s supporters said there would be no Ijtema in the nation if Saad became once no longer allowed to relieve.
“To teach in distinction engaging assertion [and the death in the 2018 clash], Tablighi supporters, senior college students of the madrasa and popular of us took a score 22 situation at the Tongi intersection nowadays. When the auto carrying Saad’s supporters arrived, police stopped them and requested to no longer race. They disobeyed and drove the auto in direction of our protesters. So, the attack became once in self-defence,” he said.
Gazipur Metropolitan Police’s Further Deputy Commissioner (Crime-South) Md Hafizul Islam said Zubayer’s followers held a sit-in on the toll road for an hour and demanded justice for the attack by Saad supporters in 2018.
At that point, they vandalised a private automobile of Saad’s followers. He furthermore said no celebration had filed a complaint in this regard but. “Exact motion would possibly well be taken if a complaint is filed.”
