Torching of train in Narsingdi: Perpetrators should be punished
A national daily has editorially commented that “hell broke loose as activists of pro-ruling party student body Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) went violent in protest against the killing of Narsingdi mayor Lokman Hossain on Tuesday.As if disruption of traffic movement by calling a strike and putting barricades on roads were not enough, they torched an intercity train next day.Undoubtedly, those who were behind the killing of the mayor committed an outrage and deserve the highest punishment that the law provides. So, if the shocked followers of the mayor and their other fellow travellers in the BCL had any score to settle, they should have done it by making sure the killer was caught.But what had the train or its passengers to do with the assassination? Unfortunately, their senseless act of vandalism inflicted immense damage to public property and caused enormous suffering to the passengers of the train.”The paper further commented “we are constrained to point fingers at the administration and the ruling Awami League (AL) for their sloth in handling the situation promptly. There is no question that the scenario in Narsingdi in the aftermath of the mayor's murder was one of law and order. In the same breath, it was also a party related issue as the
We feel the same way.The torching of an intercity train is not a small affair. We are surprised that none of Chatra League has been arrested or no case has yet been filed. If this would be done by opposition activists case would have been filed against five thousand people as we have seen police doing. This is strange behavior. We do not say that case be filed against five thousand people .This practice of police with opposition is wrong. However we ask the government to file cases the direct perpetrators of torching and taking them to law.
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