Lively district office of Awami League is now a pile of rubble
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Photo: Barta24.com
The permanent office of Dhaka District Awami League is located in Tejgaon of the capital. The party's president and former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated this modern architecture building a year ago. After a year of inauguration, this office has now turned into a pile of rubble.
Since the inauguration, the office was busy 24 hours a day with the presence of activists. However, when the Awami League government collapsed in the face of the student movement on August 5, this building fell into public anger. The excited mob vandalized the office and set it on fire.
On Tuesday (September 10) the current state of the office on the ground shows such a picture. Even though the two gates were blocked from the outside, it was clear from the outside that the building was in frenzy by the excited crowd. The structure of the building has become skeletal due to vandalism and flames.
On this day, it can be seen that the main gate of the office is intact, but the gate which was designated for the entry of the workers does not exist. As a result, the gate is blocked with coke sheets and bamboo. This once busy office is now deserted.
The road in front of the office was always kept empty to keep the movement of party ministers-MPs and important leaders unhindered. The house was covered by security blankets by members of the security forces including the police. But these are past now.
The road is now occupied by truck owners. Various shops are being built occupying the footpath. There is no place left to enter the office. In such a sudden fall of Awami League, people are putting all their energies into the past for their own needs.
Several shops have been built around the main gate of the office. Talked to Tofail Ahmed, a private worker in one such newly built tea shop. He told Barta24.com, 'This road was always occupied by activists. It was difficult to stand under the pressure of the law and order forces. Now a tea shop has been built here, I am sitting there having tea.'
When asked if anyone is saying anything to the shop that is offering, so many trucks are parked in front, a shopkeeper who does not wish to be named told Barta24.com, 'Activists do not come here like before. The police don't even come here. The road is empty so the truck brings it and leaves it here. I also gave the shop. No problem yet.'
Before this, on August 6, it was seen that all the important furniture including chairs and tables were vandalized. If you set it on fire later, everything gets burnt. Some people are digging out iron and other metals from the burnt ruins.
Built on a steel structure, this modern architectural building stands as a skeleton in the blaze. The stage of the second floor seminar hall was also burnt. Only the elevator was not spared from the flames. Street boys were breaking these burnt things and breaking the metal parts including iron.
Earlier, on August 5, the former head of government and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina resigned and left the country in the face of the anti-discrimination student movement. After the news of her departure from the country, these establishments faced the anger of the agitators.
On this day, after noon, the agitators attacked, vandalized and set fire to the house of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at 32 Dhanmondi, the central office of Awami League at Bangabandhu Avenue and the political office of the President of the party at 3 Dhanmondi and Tejgaon Dhaka district office.
