BNP calls blockade for Wednesday, hartal for Thursday

News Desk :
BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami declared a fresh 24-hour nationwide blockade for Wednesday and a 12-hour hartal for Thursday.

At a virtual press briefing on Monday, BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the eighth round of blockade on roads, railways, and waterways to press home the party’s one-point demand – resignation of the government and elections under a non-partisan neutral government.

The blockade will be enforced from 6am Wednesday (29 November) to 6am on Thursday and hartal will be observed from 6am to 6pm on Thursday (30 November), Rizvi said.

Jamaat also expressed its solidarity with the BNP programme in a statement, signed by its acting secretary general ATM Masum, issued right after BNP’s announcement.

The fresh announcement of blockade and hartal came just hours before the conclusion of a two-day nationwide blockade on Monday.

With only three days left for the submission of nomination papers, there is no indication that the BNP is going to contest the elections.

Instead, with international support, the party will move forward with its agitation programs, BNP sources said.