CT News Online
The opposition
BNP and like-minded parties has announced a 36-hour road-rail-waterway blockade
across the country starting from Tuesday morning to protest the schedule for
the next national election announced by the Election Commission (EC).
The blockade
will begin at 6am on Tuesday (December 12) and end at 6 pm on Wednesday.
It will be the
11th round of the blockade programme of the opposition parties since October
31.
Speaking at a
virtual press briefing on Sunday, BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul
Kabir 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.
Vehicles of the newspapers or media, ambulances and vehicles transporting oxygen cylinders and medicines will remain out of the purview of the blockade.
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