The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and like-minded parties will now enforce another round of 48-hour blockade across the country on November 8 and 9 to mount pressure on the government to resign and hold the next general elections under a non-partisan caretaker government.

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the road-rail-waterway blockade programme at a virtual press briefing on Monday evening.

He said the blockade programme will be observed from 6am Wednesday to 6am Friday across the country.

The other opposition parties, who have long been carrying out the simultaneous movement with BNP, also announced a similar programme by issuing press releases.

Meanwhile, coinciding the BNP’s ongoing protest programme, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has already announced a two-day blockade programme across the country on November 8 and 9. 

President of the party Col (retd) Oli Ahmed through a statement announced the programme on Monday. He also urged the party leaders and activists to make the blockade programme successful.

According to Jamaat-e-Islami sources, the party will also hold a simultaneous blockade but it has yet to announce officially.

BNP has announced fresh agitation on the last day of the 48-hour nationwide blockade which has been marked by widespread incidents of violence, including clashes with police and torching and vandalising vehicles.

Last week, the BNP’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.

They also observed a nationwide dawn-to-dusk hartal on Sunday in protest against the attacks on BNP’s grand rally at Nayapaltan on October 28.