BNP calls another 2-day blockade from Wednesday

News Desk :
The opposition BNP announced another 48-hour blockade starting Wednesday morning as the party and its allies enforce a nationwide blockade set to end early on Tuesday.

Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, senior joint secretary general of the party, made the announcement in a virtual press conference on Monday.

The third phase of the blockade will start at 6am on Wednesday and will continue till Friday 6am.

Following a brief pause over the weekend, the BNP and its like-minded parties initiated a two-day nationwide blockade on Sunday with many of its top leaders behind bars.

After a rally on October 28 that was foiled by clashes with law enforcement, the BNP called a hartal the next day and subsequently announced a three-day countrywide blockade to protest attacks on its gathering and arrest of its senior leaders.

UNB adds: Giving a break on Tuesday, the BNP’s like-minded opposition parties announced a 48-hour fresh road-rail-waterway blockade across the country beginning from Wednesday to press home their one-point demand.

In separate press releases on Monday, the opposition parties, including the Liberal Democratic Party and Labour Party, announced the programme.

As per their announcement, the blockade programme will be observed from 6am Wednesday to 6am Friday across the country.

They urged people from all walks of life to make the fresh blockade programme a success.

The fresh agitation was announced on the last day of the opposition’s 48-hour nationwide blockade that has been marked by widespread incidents of violence, including clashes with police and torching and vandalising vehicles.

Earlier in the last week, the opposition’s three-day countrywide blockade passed off amid clashes and widespread incidents of torching and vandalising vehicles, leaving four people–three in Kishoreganj and one in Sylhet-killed and over three dozen of vehicles either torched or vandalized.