DHAKA: BNP-led 20-party called 36-hour entered into the second day on Monday amid its ongoing violent blockade campaign.

The law enforcers were seen in alert position in several important places of the city. However, no violent activities have been reported yet from the morning.

Additional law enforcers among the members of intelligence were seen in front of BNP central office at Nayapaltan in city.

BNP’s Nayapaltan central office have remained vacant and kept locked as any leaders or activists of the party hardly peeped there since January 4.

On that day, a Detective Branch team of police picked up Rizvi BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir from the BNP’s Nayapaltan headquarters.

Paltan Thana Sub-Inspector Jahangir Alam told banglanews that additional law enforcers were deployed in Nayapaltan area to avert any untoward situation on second and final day of 36-hour hartal.

On the other hand, blockade and hartal supporters hurled five cocktails at two passenger buses in front of dairy gate of Jahangirnagar University at 7:30am, leaving two people injured.

Besides, hartal supporters torched a passenger bus in Mokamtola area under Shibganj upazila in Bogra around 11:15pm Sunday.

In Jhalakathi, miscreants hurled petrol bomb at the residence of district Awami League organizing secretary Afzal Hossain, also municipality mayor, at 11:00pm. 

A parked bus was set ablaze at main bus stand of the district at the same time.

On January 5, the BNP-led 20-party alliance called the nonstop blockade in response to Khaleda’s confinement and the locking of the BNP headquarters at Nayapaltan.

Khaleda had been reportedly confined to her Gulshan political office since January 3.

The protests turned violent, with at least 35 people already killed, mostly in arson attacks.

The shutdown was called by BNP and ally to protest "hike in power tariff and large scale arrests of opposition activists.”

BDST: 0833 HRS, JAN 26, 2015