BSS
  03 Feb 2025, 17:43
Update : 03 Feb 2025, 17:50

35 AL leaders, activists held in Rangpur div during 24 hrs 

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RANGPUR, Feb 3, 2025 (BSS) - Police arrested 35 leaders and activists of 
Awami League (AL) from all eight districts of Rangpur division during the 
last 24 hours ending at 6 am on Sunday raising the number of total arrested 
people to 1,423 in the last five months. 
 
They were arrested in several cases filed against them for conducting 
attacks, murders, attempted murders and sabotage on students and the public 
in the anti-discrimination student movement, and planners and financiers of 
these crimes. 
 
The crimes and operations division of the Rangpur Range Deputy Inspector 
General (DIG)'s Office confirmed the information to local journalists. 
 
According to the information, they were arrested in separate drives under 
various upazilas and districts of the division. 
 
The arrested are Gaibandha City Jubo League sports secretary Rakib Mahmud 
Apel, Municipal Chhatra League joint organizing secretary Hasan Kazi, 
Gobindaganj Municipal Jubo League general secretary Arifur Sarkar, member 
Shariful Islam, Mahimaganj union parishad chairman and expelled Union AL 
general secretary Anarul Islam.
 
Ward No 4 AL general secretary Abu Hasan of Bolloverkhas union in Kochakata 
Thana of Kurigram, Fulbari upazila AL member Abdul Baki Khandaker and Jubo 
League treasurer Joaddar Abdul Khalek, Baravita union Jubo League president 
Pratap Chakraborty, District Jubo League member Abul Kalam Mokimul Islam, 
Kurigram District Mohila AL former president and former reserved seat MP 
Naznin Sultan Nazli, Rajarhat's Chinai union Chhatra League joint convener 
Ashikur Rahman Asif, Roumari's Jadurchar union Jubo League vice-president 
Abdul Hakim, Ward No 2 AL president of Shoulmari union Kafil Uddin, Rajibpur 
Upazila AL vice-president Harun Or Abdur Rashid. 
 
Dinajpur's Ghoraghat upazila AL member Aslam Mia, Chirirbandar's Abdulpur 
union AL member Saiful Islam, Satnala Union AL ward number 1 member Nurzzaman 
Nur and member Lutfar Rahman, Biral Upazila AL publicity secretary Moti Lal 
Sarkar, Parbatipur Municipality Jubo League joint secretary Milan Sarkar, 
Dinajpur Sadar Upazila Bhognagar Union Chhatra League president Atiqur 
Rahman, Fulbari Upazila's Eluari union ward number 5 AL joint organizing 
secretary Mohabbat Hossain and Ward number 1 AL general secretary Mohammad 
Ershad, Bochaganj Upazila's Atgaon union AL vice- president Roich Uddin Ahmed 
Bablu and member Jaglul Pasha Chowdhury Cairo, Birampur Upazila's Khanpur 
union AL members Manjer Ali and Najumul Haque and Ghoraghat Municipality AL 
member Aslam Mian.
 
Thakurgaon Sadar AL member Tauhidul Islam and Jyoti alias Niloy, Boda Upazila 
AL Publicity Secretary Saidur Rahman alias Patanu, Debiganj Upazila Debi Doba 
Union AL General Secretary Shamsul Alam, member Abdul Matin, Debiganj Upazila 
Ward 9 Swechchasebak League President Moyez Akand. 
 
Rangpur Range DIG of Police Aminul Islam told local reporters that 35 people 
have been arrested in the last 24 hours ending at 6 am on Sunday from all 
eight districts of Rangpur vision under Rangpur Range of Bangladesh Police.
 
So far, a total of 1,423 people from Awami League, Jubo League, Chhatra 
League, Swechchasebak League, Krishak League, Sramik League and allied 
organisations have been arrested in the last five months in the division, he 
added.