Emotions are running high as Awami League activists in Haimchar are divided over the unpleasant incident of the upazila chairman walking over a "human bridge" formed by students of the Osmania High School during its annual sports day on  January 30. An inquiry committee of the local government, led by additional divisional commissioner Syeda Sarwar Jahan, visited the school on Thursday afternoon and spoke to people concerned. She met guardians, teachers and local residents at the Chandpur Circuit House yesterday. The deputy commissioner, Abdus Sabur Mandal, and the Superintendent of Police (SP), Shamsunnahar, were also present. Later, Syeda Sarwar Jahan told reporters: “I got two different versions from witnesses and other people during inquiry.”  
She will carry on her inquiry on Saturday too. A case has been filed by the local Awami League unit’s office secretary Maksudul Alam, accusing 14 party leaders and activists and 20-22 unknown people of vandalising the upazila Awami League office on Thursday afternoon. Portraits of Bangabandhu and Sheikh Hasina were tarnished by some AL men who are known to be against the upazila chairman, Noor Hossain Patwary. The officer-in-charge (OC) of Haimchar police station, Syed Mahbubur Rahman, confirmed the news. “We are trying to catch the accused,” he said. Additional police forces have been deployed since Thursday afternoon following clashes between rival groups of the Awami League over the sports day incident. In the face of largescale criticism across the country, the AL’s central general secretary Obaidul Quader expelled Noor Hossain from the party yesterday. Noor has apologised to the students, guardians and others for his unseemly act.