Yesterday's clash erupted when a JCD faction led by its pouro (municipal) committee president and secretary Habibur Rahman Shishir and Hasanuzzaman Touhid tried in vain to occupy the district JCD office.

This has resulted in injuries to 4 JCD activists. The faction was demanding formation of a new district committee after expiry of the existing body led by its president Aktaruzzaman Jewel and general secretary Morshed Azam.

Earlier, 8 people including two police officials were injured in a fierce clash when processionists of two separate processions coming from the opposite direction clashed each other on the Haji Mohsin Road. The processions were brought out in the town by two feuding groups to mark the 27th founding anniversary of JCD on Sunday.

As police intervened, two police officials and six members of both the groups were injured. The injured police officials are sub-inspector (SI) Shahid and assistant sub-inspector (ASI) Mizan.

Among the injured JCD activists, Abdullah,23, Biplob, 20, and Roman,20, were admitted to Nilphamari Sadar Hospital for treatment. After the incident, additional police forces led by a magistrate were deployed to control any untoward incident further.

Following the clash, the district BNP leaders organised a compromise meeting at its office with the leaders of both the groups the same night.

In the meeting, leaders of both the factions brought allegations and counter allegations against each other. Pourosabha unit JCD president Habibur Rahman Shishir brought specific allegations of extortion, tender manipulation and some serious allegations against the president and secretary of the existing date expired district committee. He demanded formation of a new district committee of the party without further delay.

On the other hand, district JCD president Akhtaruzzaman Jewel alleged that his rival group is acting as per conspiracy of an expelled BNP leader.

However, the compromise meeting ended without yielding any fruitful result. From then on tension mounted in the town.