BNP’s 7th phase countrywide blockade underway

BNP and other opposition parties’ 48-hour countrywide blockade of road, rail and waterways started at 6am on Sunday demanding polls under a non-party interim government. The fourth-phase of blockade will end at 6am on Tuesday.

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the blockade at a virtual press conference on Thursday afternoon.

Vehicles of the newspapers or media, ambulances, and vehicles transporting oxygen cylinders and medicines will remain out of the purview of the blockade, the BNP leader said.

Earlier, BNP and other opposition parties observed blockade programs across the country in six phases.

The sixth phase of blockade ended at 6am on Friday.