BNP’s 48-hour blockade begins

A 48-hour countrywide road-rail-waterway blockade, called by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), began at 6am on Sunday.

Pausing their protests for two days, BNP Senior Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the blockade programme again on Thursday afternoon to press home their one-point demand and protest the police action on its October 28 rally.

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and other political parties and alliances followed BNP to announce that they would also hold the blockade programme simultaneously.

Apart from blockade, BNP is also observing a dawn-to-dusk hartal in Chattogram protesting the arrest of the party’s Standing Committee Member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury.

BNP leader Rizvi said ambulances, vehicles relating to newspapers and pharmacies will remain out of purview of the blockade.

Earlier, BNP, its like-minded parties and alliances observed a three-day country blockade programme from October 31 to November 2.