Five rooms gutted in fire at NCP MP Nusrat Tabassum's ancestral home in Kushtia

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Five rooms of a tin-shed house belonging to National Citizen Party (NCP) Joint Convener and MP Nusrat Tabassum were gutted in a fire in Daulatpur upazila of Kushtia early today.…

Five rooms of a tin-shed house belonging to National Citizen Party (NCP) Joint Convener and MP Nusrat Tabassum were gutted in a fire in Daulatpur upazila of Kushtia early today.

Daulatpur Police Station Officer-in-Charge Md Khaledur Rahman told The Daily Star that Nusrat informed him about the fire around 12:20am and asked him to send police and the fire service immediately.

"I rushed to the spot with my patrol team. Upon arrival, we saw several rooms on fire," he said.

Police reached the scene within 15 to 20 minutes of receiving the call. The fire service team arrived from Bheramara and brought the fire under control with the help of locals, the OC added.

The affected house is the MP's ancestral home. It was used to keep cattle, goats, ducks and chickens, while a caretaker also stayed there, Khaledur said.

The rooms were packed with cattle and poultry feed and old wooden furniture, he added.

Nusrat’s parents and other family members live in a three-storey house built by her father nearby.

In a Facebook post following the incident, Nusrat alleged that a petrol bomb had been thrown at her house, although she said she did not know who was responsible.

"If you think you can silence my voice this way, you are mistaken. I will continue my work even if I have to walk through fire," she wrote, ending the post with the slogan "Inquilab Zindabad".

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