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In addition, the mayor of the municipality of Kumarkhali, Shamsuzzaman, the ATM freedom fighter Abul Mansur, the president of the Shilaidaha Union Parishad, Salauddin Khan, and the president of the Kumarkhali Upazila Juba League, Monir Hasan, spoke on the occasion. However, Ziaul Islam, president of the Kaya Union Parishad and general secretary of the district Juba League, was not seen at the protest meeting. Locals say that the leader of the Kaya Union Juba League and defendant in the sculpture vandalism case, Anichur Rahman, engaged in politics with him. When Ziaul Islam spoke to the media the morning of the incident, Anichur was seen with him.
Bagha Jatin’s sculpture was vandalized in the Kaya village of Kumarkhali upazila on Thursday night. Harun Aur Rashid, the principal of Kaya College, filed a case under the Special Powers Act on Friday afternoon.
Preliminary investigation has confirmed that some youths led by Anichur Rahman were directly involved in the vandalism of the sculpture. The incident took place in a conflict with the Kaya College board of directors committee.
Earlier in the evening of December 4, a sculpture under construction by Bangabandhu was vandalized at the intersection of five roads in the city of Kushtia. The police arrested two teachers and two students from the madrasa and sent them to jail.
