Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has announced a 48-hour blockade program across the country from Sunday (November 5).

BNP’s Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi made the announcement on Thursday (November 2) afternoon. 

The blockade will be held on all modes of communication till Tuesday (November 7) morning to press home their one-point demand of immediate resignation of the ruling government. 

On October 28, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir suspended the grand rally in the capital's Nayapaltan and announced the hartal.

BNP claimed that the rally was suspended as police fired rubber bullets, flash grenades and lobbed tear gas shells, forcing the BNP leaders and activists to leave the rally venue.

BNP, Jamaat and like-minded parties observed the dawn to dusk countrywide hartal on October 29 in protest of the recent police action during the party's Nayapaltan rally.

Later on October 29, the BNP and Jamaat announced nationwide blockades for three days starting 31 October to press home their one-point demand of immediate resignation of the ruling government.

BDST: 1730 HRS, NOV 02, 2023
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