Dhaka, Nov. 5 -- BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has condemned the gun attack on party candidate Ershad Ullah in Chattogram's Bayezid, describing it as "a brutal manifestation of the same chaotic unrest in the country".

In a statement on Wednesday night, he demanded the immediate arrest and trial of those involved in the attack on the BNP candidate for Chattogram-8 constituency.

"The miscreants, who reappeared after the fall of the Awami autocratic regime, are again trying to destabilise the country and exploit the situation through chaos," Fakhrul said.

"The brutal attack that left Ershad Ullah and several others injured is a clear manifestation of that conspiracy."

Earlier in the afternoon, Metropolitan BNP Conveno...