Dhaka, Sep 1
Bangladesh Awami League on Monday strongly condemned the attack, vandalism, looting, and arson at the office of one of the country’s major political parties -the Jatiya Party.
Local media reported that on Saturday evening, the central office of JaPa in Dhaka’s Kakrail was attacked and set ablaze, a day after the violent clashes between its activists and those of Gono Odhikar Parishad in the same area.
Following the attack, in a statement, JaPa chairman's Press Secretary and Joint Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Jalali said, "Arsonists set fire to the Jatiya Party central office in Kakrail this evening, burning books from the ground-floor library, important documents, and furniture."
“The attack came after Jatiya Party leaders and activists had concluded their scheduled programmes and vacated the office at the request of law enforcement officials. Around 20 to 30 individuals then broke through police barricades and carried out the arson attack,” he added.