The attack was made when he was leading a procession at Koshitari to campaign for his party candidate Anwarul Karim Maya in Haragachh municipal election.

The polls will be held today.

Karim filed a general diary with Koshitari thana, alleging that his "elder brother engaged terrorists to attack him". But he did not name any of the attackers.

"I could not recognise any of the attackers because it was evening", he told a press conference at his Haragachh house yesterday.

He alleged that having failed to defeat him thrice in parliamentary election, his elder brother has "adopted the path of terrorism to keep him away from campaigning in Haragachh municipal election".

Karim said, seeing armed youths, he ran away from the procession and entered a roadside house.

"This is an attack on free and fair municipal election", said.

He urged the Deputy Commissioner and the Police Superintendent to deploy more security forces during the polling.

Expressing his deep concern over alleged terrorist

activities in Haragachh ahead the polls, Karim said his brother has engaged "terrorists" in favour of his candidate Mamunur Rashid Mamun to create panic among voters to rig the polls.

When contacted later, Rahim Uddin Bharsa denied the allegation, saying, " Karim is insane. It is not unusual for him to bring such an allegation against me."

The two brothers, who are political rivals for long, are desperate to get their candidates victorious in the local municipal polls as this would benefit them in the next parliamentary election.