On April 10, an armed gang comprised of local BNP leaders, vandalized and looted the residence belonged to family members of Mahmud Hasan Rajib, a former general secretary of Bangladesh Student League’s Rajshahi unit. As the former student league leader was not home, a wave of violence inflicted by the same gang on his two brothers. The next day, these cadres went after friends of the former student leader: this time his friend Naimul encountered physical violence. Emboldened by the silence of law enforcement to ensure protection of victims, the next day the attackers swopped on another Awami League activist Mohammad Marshal and sought to kill him but failed due to resistance from locals.

BNP’s youth front leaders from Rajshahi unit Shafiq Mahmud Tonmoy, Faisal Sarker Dicko, Ashiqul Alam Jibon, Najmus Sakib and BNP’s student wing leader Imdadul Haque Milon among others led these violent attacks. Despite repeated pleas from the victim families, law enforcement did not stand against these perpetrators of violence, rather arrested some of the victims attacked by these gang.