Bangladesh continues to gasp in turmoil , BNP leader murdered , main accused in Deepu Ranjan lynching case arrested

By Our Correspondent

Agartala, January 9, 2026

The all-encompassing depredations of fundamentalist Jamat-e-Islami and its accomplices ,targeting BNP leaders and workers along with the minorities have turned Bangladesh into a lawless hell in the run-up to the February 12 elections to the National Assembly . Already five BNP leaders have been murdered by the thugs and goons of Jamat while at least eight Hindus ,mostly belonging to relatively affluent section of society, have been done to death brutally. The Jamat camp is rattled by the uncertainty over alliance with BNP which it needs to register maiden win in the upcoming elections, specially after a countrywide poll survey found that 70% of voters in the hellscape prefer BNP to any other party in the upcoming election.

Sources from Bangladesh said that on last Wednesday night senior BNP leader and a frontliner in the party’s volunteer wing Azizur Rahaman Musabbir (54) was shot dead in the Tezaturi market area of Dhaka . His murder has triggered a furore as Azizur was a popular man with a good deal of acceptability among people. Alongside Azizur, another senior leader Abu Sufiyan Masood was also injured but he survived after being in hospital. The police have already launched an investigation and are hopeful they will be nabbed soon but there is general suspicion that a hit squad of Jamat might have shot the BNP leader dead. Earlier on January 6 the local BNP leader at Jessore district headquarter Alamgir Hossain had been hacked to death in the heart of the town ,sparking massive protest and outrage among people , specially BNP supporters. Seniormost BNP leaders are yet to make an official statement on the twin murders and the earlier ones but there is a growing opinion in the party circles that the spree of killings of the party leaders and workers need to be protested.

Meanwhile, a police team investigating the lynching to death and burning of Hindu factory worker Deepu Chandra Das in Bhaluka area of Mymensing last month have arrested Yasin Arafat , a ‘Madrasa’ teacher, who had instigated the unruly mob that lynched innocent Deepu Chandra on December 21. Sources said that the current trouble in Bangladesh is being fuelled by the total inaction of the interim government headed by Yunus who want to pave the way for take-over of the country by Jamat and other fundamentalist elements by fair means or foul.

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