BNP announces 36-hour blockade from Tuesday

Staff Reporter :
The main opposition party-BNP on Sunday announced a 36-hour road-rail-waterway blockade across the country starting from Tuesday morning to protest against the schedule for the next national election.

BNP’s allies in the ongoing movement also announced the similar programme.

It will be the 11th round of the blockade programme of the opposition parties since October 31.

The blockade will begin at 6:00am on on Tuesday and will be ended at 6:00pm on Wednesday.

BNP Senior Joint-Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the programme at a virtual press briefing.

Rizvi called upon the country’s people and the supporters of BNP and other opposition parties to observe the programme spontaneously to make it a success.

The BNP leader said that vehicles of the newspapers or media, ambulances and vehicles transporting oxygen cylinders and medicines will remain out of the purview of the blockade.

He said the fresh blockade programme was also meant for escalating pressure on the government to resign, hold the next election under a non-party neutral government and release party leaders and activists, including its secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.

He said other opposition parties, who had long been carrying out the simultaneous movement with BNP, would also observe similar programmes.