Published : 09 Dec 2025, 05:11 PM
Updated : 21 Aug 2026, 02:51 PM
A local leader of the National Citizen Party (NCP) in Rajshahi has alleged that an attempt was made on his life after he and two others were injured in a road crash on Monday.
Nahidul Islam Saju, the party’s district organisational secretary and a convenor of the district chapter of the Students Against Discrimination Movement, filed a complaint at Motihar Police Station on Monday night, claiming the incident was deliberate. Police say the complaint accuses 12 to 13 unidentified people of attempted murder.
The crash occurred in the Binodpur area of the city.
Two others, Abdur Bari, a member of the NCP’s district committee, and Sohanur Rahman, from the party’s media cell, were also injured.
Bari was admitted to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital with serious injuries, while Nahidul and Sohanur were released after treatment.
Hospital spokesperson Shankar K Biswas said Bari was now out of danger but remained under observation.
In his complaint, Nahidul said he had earlier taken part in a press conference at “July Chattar” demanding the resignation of Saiful Isla, the NCP’s district convenor. Afterwards, he and his two colleagues began travelling towards Katakhali by motorcycle.
He claimed that eight people on four motorcycles started following them.
Around 4:15pm, after they passed Binodpur Bazar, a silver private car positioned on the wrong side of the road allegedly sped towards them.
Nahidul said he tried to signal the driver to stop, but the vehicle accelerated and struck their motorcycle.
“We were all thrown onto the road. The car then fled, and the motorcycles that were following us turned around and left in the same direction.”
He described the incident as a targeted attack.
“This was no ordinary accident. It was meant to kill me,” he said, adding that his activism during the Students Against Discrimination Movement and the July Uprising, as well as his role as the NCP’s potential candidate for Rajshahi-3 in the upcoming election, may have made him a target.
Leaders of the NCP’s Rajshahi city unit visited the injured at the hospital.
Rajshahi NCP Member-Secretary Atikur Rahman said the incident was “an attempt on Nahidul's life as part of a deep conspiracy” and called for the immediate arrest of those responsible.
Motihar Police Station chief Abdul Malek acknowledged that a complaint had been filed and said the allegations would be investigated.
