Staff Reporter :For the second time in this month, ‘Asol BNP’, literally meaning real BNP, on Sunday marched towards the BNP’s central office at Nayapaltan in the city to occupy it, but failed. Activists of the BNP and its front bodies foiled the move to enter the office, resulting in a clash in front of the office. The BNP men also torched a vehicle of the ‘Asol BNP’ wherefrom loudspeakers were playing a CD of poems of its chief Kamrul Hasan Nasim.Earlier on January 2, the BNP engaged in a clash with the ‘Asol BNP’, as a group of people led by Kamrul Hasan Nasim attacked the office to occupy it, but had to retreat without success in face of BNP’s resistance like Sunday. The BNP has been blaming the government for patronising Nasim and his ‘hired men’. The party on Sunday also accused the government in this connection. “It is a conspiracy of the government to split the BNP,” said BNP Joint-Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed. Addressing a press conference at the Nayapaltan office, he said that the so-called ‘Asol BNP’ is nothing, but a part of the government’s sinister plan. Nasim is just a street boy. He is a government agent. Some street urchins under the banner of ‘Asol BNP’ came to occupy the BNP office, he alleged. The BNP leader said that the hired street urchins earlier also came to occupy the BNP office under police guard. “When we are deprived of exercising our democratic rights, the hired persons launched attack on the BNP office with procession in presence of members of law enforcing agencies. It proves that the government are behind the move,” he said. Nasim, however, denied the allegation, saying that they went to occupy the BNP office for implementing his plan to ‘reform and reorganise the party’. He called a press conference at Dhaka Reporters’ Unity today (Monday) to brief his plan on Sunday’s incident. Witnesses said that a group of men brought out a procession and marched towards the BNP office from Bijoynagar Nightingale crossing around 3:45 pm with a banner inscribed with ‘Run for Revolution’. They were riding in a pick-up van with loudspeakers playing slogans: “Bangabandhu is the father of our nation, and we need a Ziaur Rahman also”.As they reached in front of the Ananda Community Centre, some BNP and JCD activists chased them with sticks and drove them away. The vehicle was set on fire and the incident was followed by a flash pro-BNP procession.OC of Paltan Police Station Morshed Alam said that there was chase and counter-chase between two groups of people in the Nayapaltan area and some rowdy men set fire to a pick-up van.
