CT Online Desk:
BNP and its allies in the
ongoing movement on Thursday again enforced a 48-hour fresh road-rail-waterway
blockade across the country starting from Sunday morning to protest at the
schedule for the next parliamentary election announced by the Election Commission.
The party's senior joint secretary general Ruhul
Kabir Rizvi made the announcement at a virtual press briefing on Thursday
afternoon.
It will be the 9th round of
blockade programme of the opposition parties since October 31.
He said the blockade would begin at 6:00am on
Sunday and end at 6:00am on Tuesday.
Rizvi said that the blockade was also meant for mounting
pressure on the government to quit, 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 that other opposition parties, who have long been carrying out
the simultaneous movement with BNP, would also observe a similar programme.
The fresh programme was announced around three hours before the end of the
opposition’s hartal which will end at 6:00pm on Thursday.
Rizvi thanked the country's people and the opposition leaders and activists for
making their hartal a success.
The opposition parties observed blockades in eight phases to mount pressure on
the Awami League government to quit power and hold the next election under a
non-partisan administration.
BNP and some other parties enforced a 24-hour road-rail-waterway blockade
across the country starting from Wednesday morning and a daylong hartal on
Thursday that will end at 6:00pm on Thursday.
They also observed a nationwide dawn-to-dusk hartal on October 29 in protest
against the attacks on BNP's grand rally at Nayapaltan that ended amid the
incidents of torching vehicles and clashes, leaving three people dead.
Half an hour into the start of BNP's much-talked-about grand rally at
Nayapaltan on October 28, BNP leaders and workers locked in a clash with the
ruling party activists and police at Kakrail. The violent clashes soon spread
around Nayapaltan, foiling the rally midway.
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