BNP now calls blockade on Wednesday, hartal Thursday

The BNP has annoucned a nationwide blockade on Wednesday, and a hartal on Thursday.

Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, joint secretary general of the party, announced the program in a press briefing on Monday afternoon.

He said the blockade will begin at 6am on Wednesday and end at 6m on Thursday while the hartal will be enforced from 6am to 6pm on Thursday.

The fresh programm were announced 14 hours before the end of the opposition’s ongoing 48-hour blockade which will end at 6am on Tuesday.

BNP and like-minded parties enforced a 48-hour countrywide shutdown from November 19 and then announced a 48-hour blockade from November 22 and another phase of a 48-hour blockade from November 26 which will end at 6am on Tuesday.

The opposition parties have so far observed blockades in seven phases to mount pressure on the Awami League government to quit power and hold the next election under a non-partisan administration.

They also observed a nationwide dawn-to-dusk hartal on October 29 in protest against the attacks on BNP’s grand rally at Nayapaltan that ended amid the incidents of torching vehicles and clashes, leaving three people dead.

Half an hour into the start of BNP's much-talked-about grand rally at Nayapaltan on October 28, BNP leaders and workers locked in a clash with the ruling party activists and police at Kakrail. The violent clashes soon spread around Naya Paltan, foiling the rally midway.

Source: UNB