The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Three reformist ex-BNP lawmakers Ehsanul Haque Milon, Barkat Ullah Bulu and Bilkis Islam were assaulted by angry BNP adherents at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) yesterday.

The reformist leaders went separately to the BSMMU hospital hearing the news that Tarique Rahman would be released anytime yesterday.

As former State Minister for Education Ehsanul Haque Milon went to the BSMMU, JCD and Jubo Dal workers raised slogans against him. Later, the activists surrounded him and slapped and punched him. Some threw slippers and shoes at him that left him bloody. The intervention of Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal general secretary Moazzem Hossain Alal and police saved him from the mob.

Former Commerce Adviser Barkat Ullah Bulu also came under similar assault by angry JCD and Jubo Dal workers. The angry mob surrounded him and punched and slapped him grabbing by his hair. They also stripped Barkat Ullah Bulu of his shirt and tore it. Later they rejoiced with his torn shirt.

Meanwhile Bilkis Islam, a former MP from women's reserved seat in Nilphamari, was also assaulted by the women activists of BNP. Police rescued Bilkis and escorted her into a car.

Later, Milon told journalists that he was not a reformist. But those, who called him (Milon) a reformist, were conspirators, he added.

Bilkis told journalists that she had been at the BSMMU before Milan came. After the assault on Milan, Dhaka City Mahila Dal secretary Shirin Akhter provoked others to attack her.

Other pro-reforms leaders fled the scene in a hurry seeing the fate of the Milon, Bulu and Bilkis.