Gayeshwar comes under attack in Keraniganj

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy has come under attack during an electoral campaign in Keraniganj.

He is in the hospital now, Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, the senior joint secretary of BNP, confirmed the matter on Tuesday.

Gayeshwar is a contestant for Dhaka 3 constituency in the upcoming national polls.

He said Gayeshwar and his supporters came under attack in the Keraniganj’s Kodomtola area during an electoral campaign. A group of miscreants attacked them with homemade arms and injured them severely. Later, he was taken to Islami Bank Hospital in the capital’s Bijoynagar.