Companiganj upazila AL president was assaulted allegedly by people led by ruling Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader's younger brother Abdul Quader Mirza yesterday.

Victim Khizir Hayat Khan, who is a freedom fighter, 75, was undergoing treatment at the local upazila health complex.

Khizir claimed that Quader Mirza became angry as he had been opposing his recent activities that "go against the party". 

Recently, Quader Mirza, also mayor of Basurhat municipality, took away furniture of the upazila unit AL office and locked the office.   

"That is why I have rented a room to use it as our party office at Rupali Chattar. I along with some party men was sitting in the new office around 5:00pm," said Khizir.

"At that time, Quader Mirza and around 100 of his followers entered the new office, assaulted me physically and tore my dresses," he alleged.

After the incident, tension was prevailing in the area as supporters of Khizir exploded crude bombs and fired blank shots in the air.

Additional law enforcers were deployed in the area to avoid further untoward incident, said Alamgir Hossain, superintendent of Noakhali police.

Quader Mirza came to the limelight as he started delivering speeches against corruption and misdeeds of some party leaders. It made political situation in Companiganj volatile.

On February 19, a deadly clash took place between two factions of ruling AL over establishing supremacy in the upazila.

One group was led by Quader Mirza, while the other group was led by Mizanur Rahman Badal, organising secretary of upazila unit AL.

The clash left a local journalist, Borhan Uddin Muzakkir, 30, dead and around fifty others injured.

The Daily Star could not reach Quader Mirza for comments.