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Clash between the supporters of Awami League leaders
who got the party tickets for parliamentary elections and
the nomination-deprived candidates in front of Sudha Sadan,
the residence of Sheikh Hasina at Dhanmondi, on Sunday.
FocusBangla

Staff Reporter

The vicinity of Sudha Sadan, residence of Awami League (AL) president Sheikh Hasina, yesterday turned into a veritable battlefield, as series of clash took place between the supporters of leaders who received party tickets and those who did not.

At least four people were injured as supporters locked in clash for a second day yesterday outside the Sudha Sadan.

The agitating followers of former army chief KM Shafiullah, who is an unsuccessful aspirant of AL ticket for Narayanganj-1 constituency, attacked the supporters of Gazi Golam Dastgir, who got the nomination for that seat.

Two of the injured, Iqbal and Kiron were identified, as the supporters of Shafiullah, while the identity of another could not be known.

Later the supporters of Hannan Firoze, who is the founder president of Stamford University Bangladesh, agitating for nomination of Firoze for Jhalokathhi-1 locked in clash with Shafiullah's supporters on the spot.

An hour-long chase and counter chase took place between the two groups. The two groups scuffled and hurled brickbats at each other until police were forced to baton-charge the crowd to disperse them.

The Sudha Sadan has seen protests build since the party started to distribute nominations last week for the upcoming parliamentary polls.

The delegation of deprived AL leaders including Mohammad Ali, who sought nomination from Narsingdhi-1, Barrister Amirul Islam from Kushitia-3, Shamsul Alam Dudu from Joypurhat-1, Dr Hannan Firoze (Jhalkathi-1) and Barrister Zakir Ahmed from Brahmanbaria-5 met Hasina and requested her to reconsider the nominations in those constituencies.