BNP alleged that their 50 supporters were injured and two of them sustained bullet wounds in an attack by Awami League men in Lalmai upazila of Cumilla on Saturday.
Houses and other establishments were also vandalised during the attack.
The bullet-hit Jubo Dal leaders Firoz and Monir were admitted to Cumilla Medical College and Hospital, said BNP Chairperson’s Advisor and former lawmaker Monirul Huq Chowdhury.
He said they had a representative meeting at the house of Belghor Uttar union unit BNP’s Member Secretary Mofizul Islam at Undaniya village and he was supposed to attend the event at 4pm.
Meanwhile, he came to know that supporters of chairmen of Lalmai and Sadar Dakshin upazilas Kamrul Islam and Golam Sarwar, also Awami League men, were staging a showdown with firearms in the area around 2pm.
At one stage, the Awami League men, mostly hired from the Bagmara area, carried out the attack on the meeting venue and opened fire, he said.
At least 50 leaders and activists, including two bullet-hit, were injured in the attack, the BNP leader said, adding that the attackers looted valuables and vandalised Mofizul’s house.
Refuting the allegation, Sadar Dakshin upazila Chairman Golam Sarwar said the BNP supporters opened fire on their procession as they held a peace rally on Gouarbanga-Belghor Road, leaving eight to nine people injured.
Lalmai police station Officer-in-Charge Hanif Sarkar said they learned about the chaos between two parties in the union and found no marks of firing at the spot.
