Fire breaks out at NCP MP Nusrat’s Kushtia home, petrol bomb attack alleged
A fire broke out at the ancestral home of National Citizen Party joint convener and reserved-seat lawmaker Nusrat Tabassum in Bagowan village of Daulatpur upazila in Kushtia early Thursday, gutting five rooms and killing several livestock, with party leaders alleging that unknown people hurled petrol bombs at the residence.
The blaze erupted shortly after 12:00am and destroyed five of the eight rooms in the single-storey tin-shed house, along with an adjacent livestock shed. Fire Service personnel rushed to the scene and brought the flames under control at about 1:50am.
Kushtia additional superintendent of police (Bheramara Circle) Delwar Hossain said no member of the MP’s family suffered burn injuries in the incident. He added that Nusrat’s parents, who reside on the third floor of a separate three-storey building about 20 to 30 metres away from the affected tin-shed house, remained unharmed.
‘The exact cause of the fire is yet to be established and will be determined through investigation,’ the police official said, noting that police could not immediately confirm whether petrol bombs were used.
An NCP Khulna metropolitan unit law affairs secretary, who was travelling with Nusrat to Kushtia on Thursday morning, told New Age that 15 to 20 people—including caretakers and their family members—were staying on the property. He claimed around 10 goats and several poultry died, and the farm was almost completely destroyed.
The NCP Khulna leader claimed a social media post was circulating in which the president of the Kushtia district unit of the banned Bangladesh Chhatra League allegedly claimed responsibility for the arson, though the claim could not be independently verified.
Earlier at about 2:00am, NCP assistant secretary for youth and employment affairs Wahiduzzaman, speaking via Nusrat’s mobile phone, alleged that a group of unknown people arrived on motorcycles after midnight and hurled four petrol bombs from the road—two onto the tin roof, one on the livestock shed, and one in the courtyard. While Wahiduzzaman claimed several family members sustained injuries, police reported no casualties.
In a Facebook post shortly after the incident, Nusrat, also a member of the NCP Political Council, wrote, ‘They hurled petrol bombs at our house. I do not know who carried out the attack.’
‘If anyone thinks they can silence me this way, they are mistaken. I will continue my work by passing through the path of fire. Inquilab Zindabad,’ she added.
In a subsequent post at 8:40am on Thursday, she shared photographs of the damage and a dead goat named Tara, recalling that the house had been built by her grandfather. Nusrat arrived in Kushtia on Thursday morning and was scheduled to hold a press conference to brief the media.
The NCP media cell, in a Facebook statement, accused activists of the activity-banned Awami League of carrying out the petrol bomb attack. NCP spokesperson Asif Mahmud Sajeeb Bhuiyan also described the incident as a petrol bomb attack in a separate social media post.
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