BNP stages 2nd day road march

Staff Reporter :
BNP brought out its scheduled second day road march in the capital on Wednesday to press home the party’s one-point demand of the resignation of Sheikh Hasina-led government.

The road march began with a brief rally at about 11:10am from Polwel Market at Abdullahpur in Uttara. The march was terminated at Jatrabari Chowrasta through parading the streets of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Kuril Biswa Road, Natun Bazar, Badda, Rampura Bridge, Abul Hotel at Malibagh, Khilgaon, Basabo, Mugda and Sayedabad.

BNP Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas led the road march. The party leaders and activists joined the road march programme from different thanas and wards in the capital city. At that time, they chanted various anti-government slogans demanding the resignation of the current AL government to pave the way to conduct the next general election under a non-party caretaker government.

Apart from BNP, other opposition political parties brought out road march from Paltan and adjoining areas as part of the simultaneous movement with the BNP.

Huge traffic congestion has been created on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway’s Tongi to Airport areas since the morning due to the BNP’s road march.

A large number of vehicles were seen stranded from Abdullahpur to Airport at noon due to BNP’s second-day road march as the entrance to Dhaka came to a close.