Jubo League attacks police

Yet another incident has occurred on July 6 when some members of the Jubo League attacked a police outpost (OP) in Mymensingh from where they tried to snatch the owner of the vandalised motorcycle who had gone to the OP to lodge a complaint. Earlier these party activists forcibly took away the accused Apu, of Jubo League, from the police who was caught in the act of vandalising a motorcycle.

It seems that the ruling party cadres are a law unto themselves with no one to check their excesses. The fact that these activists feel it within their right to attack uniformed police is shocking. Precisely what sort of message are they giving out to ordinary people? We applaud the policemen, who are working under difficult circumstances, for nabbing one of the attackers and catching another later during a drive.

That an attack has been mounted on a police station is a direct challenge to state authority. Contrary to what these AL cadres may think, there is such a thing as 'rule of law' and they are not above it. We expect nothing short of speedy and severe action against such unruly party men to put them in their place. This incident has done little to reassure the people that ours is a society that is ruled by law.

Failure to rein in the excesses of Jubo League members and bring them to task would merely go to further reinforce the belief that their actions have the acquiescence of the administration because they belong to a body aligned to the ruling party.