BNP’s 24-hour countrywide blockade underway

BNP and other opposition parties’ 24-hour countrywide blockade of road, rail and waterways is underway demanding polls under a non-party interim government. 

The eighth-phase of blockade started at 6am on Wednesday and will end at 6am on Thursday.

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

However, BNP will also observe 12-hour hartal across the country on Thursday. 

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

The seventh phase of blockade ended at 6am on Tuesday.