BNP calls fresh blockade on Wednesday, hartal Thursday
Staff Correspondent
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has announced fresh nationwide blockade on Wednesday and a hartal on Thursday.
BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the programme in a virtual press briefing on Monday afternoon.
He said the eighth round of blockade on roads, railways, and waterways will begin at 6am on Wednesday and will end at 6m on Thursday while the hartal will be enforced from 6am to 6pm on Thursday.
The fresh programme was announced 14 hours before the end of the opposition’s ongoing 48-hour blockade 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.
