The Jatiyo Party headquarters is besieged by protesters; the army and police are there. "The student-public set fire to the party's office." "Police arrived on the scene and successfully contained the fire," stated Sohel Rana, Dhaka Metropolitan Police's extra deputy commissioner for the Ramna Zone.After an altercation with partymen, a group of student-public members known as the "Anti-Fascism Student, Worker and Public" have stormed the Jatiyo Party offices in Bijyanagar, the capital.


Our correspondent reports from the scene that members of the Bangladesh Army and Bangladesh Police have arrived to calm the situation.

"The party office was set on fire by the student-public. "The fire has been contained by the police who arrived at the scene," stated Sohel Rana, additional deputy commissioner of Ramna Zone, Dhaka Metropolitan police.
There were no recorded casualties. Now everything is normal," he continued.

Additionally, two fire department units were sent to the scene, but the demonstrators pushed them back.


Around 7:50 p.m., the units arrived at the location. However, they were pushed to back down by the students. "Down with tyranny," as one policeman from Paltan Police Station stated on condition of anonymity, was one of the chants they chanted during this period.

The protestors had earlier burned and vandalized the JP office. After the altercation with JP guys, they additionally painted a number of grafitti on the building's walls.

After the demonstrators staged a parade from the Dhaka University campus to the JP headquarters, the atmosphere became more heated.

They yelled a number of slogans criticizing the JP, the primary opposition party throughout the final two years of the government led by the Awami League.

Since they took part in the last three AL elections, they referred to the party as a "cohort of the AL and India."


There was an altercation between the two groups after JP supporters emerged from the office. The demonstrators later damaged the JP office and burned it on fire.

Hasnat Abdullah and Sarjil Alam, the coordinators of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, declared shortly after the altercation that they would stage a procession to the Jatiyo Party headquarters in an attempt to dislodge the party.

"The Jatiyo Party, who are national traitors, have used weapons to beat our brothers in Bijaynagar and are using them to rally. "These traitors will definitely be overthrown this time," Hasnat wrote in his Facebook profiles earlier.


"We will move to Bijayanagar with procession at 8.30 from Raju Bhaskarya," he wrote in another post. It is necessary to eradicate national traitors.

Around the same moment, Sarjis posted something similar from his Facebook profile.

The most recent development coincides with weeks of hostility between the JP and the student movement's leaders.

The coordinator of the student movement has called the party a "ally of the fascists" and threatened to "crush JP" in the streets.

Earlier this month, shortly before the two coordinators were scheduled to visit Rangpur, the party's primary base, JP proclaimed Sarjis and Hasnat persona non grata. Hasnat did not visit the districts as scheduled, but Sarjis did.


During his visit to Rangpur, the primary JP stronghold, on October 26, he declared, "We will demonstrate how the entire student movement, including the two student advisers of the interim government, can shake the ground in Rangpur and crush the efforts of those allies trying to take fight on the streets."