BNP’s 48-hour blockade starts

BNP and other opposition parties’ 48-hour blockade of road, rail and waterways started from 6am on Sunday. The fourth-phase blockade will end at 6am on Tuesday.

A total of seven buses were set on fire by the miscreants in different parts of the capital Dhaka from 8pm on Saturday to 6am on Sunday.

The miscreants also set two more buses on fire in Gazipur and Barishal during this period. 

Talha Bin Jasim, an official of the Fire Service and Civil Defence, confirmed the matter to Jago News.

Earlier on Thursday, the BNP announced the 48-hour countrywide blockade to press home their one-point demand to hold the next election under a neutral government.

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

Vehicles of the newspapers or media, ambulances, and vehicles transporting oxygen cylinders and medicines will remain out of the purview of the blockade, BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said in a virtual briefing on Thursday.