Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Monday (November 27) announced countrywide blockade on Wednesday and dawn-to-dusk hartal on Thursday.

This decision came up demanding the cancellation of the election schedule and resignation of the ruling Awami League handing over the power to a poll-time –party-neutral caretaker government.

BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the fresh programmes through a virtual press conference.

He said that the blockade would begin at 6:00am on Wednesday and end at 6:00am on Thursday while the hartal will be enforced from 6:00am to 6:00pm on Thursday.

BNP and its allies in the ongoing movement enforced a 48-hour countrywide shutdown from November 19 and then announced a 48-hour blockade from November 22 and another phase of a 48-hour blockade from November 26 which will end at 6:00m on Tuesday.

They also observed a nationwide dawn-to-dusk hartal on October 29 in protest against the attacks on BNP’s grand rally at Nayapaltan that ended amid the incidents of torching vehicles and clashes, leaving three people dead.

Half an hour into the start of BNP's much-talked-about grand rally at Nayapaltan on October 28, BNP leaders and workers locked in a clash with the ruling party activists and police at Kakrail. The violent clashes soon spread around Nayapaltan, foiling the rally midway.

BDST: 1722 HRS, NOV 27, 2023
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