Staff Reporter:
After giving a pause for a day, the BNP and like-minded parties will again enforce a 48-hour country-wide road-rail-waterway blockade beginning from Wednesday to mount pressure on the Awami League government to quit power and hold the next election under a non-partisan administration.
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the program at a virtual press brief-ing on Monday afternoon.
He said the other opposition parties, who have long been carrying out the simultaneous movement with BNP, also observe a similar program.
Rizvi said the blockade program will be observed from 6am Wednesday to 6am Friday across the coun-try. It will be the fifth phase of the blockade program of the opposition parties.
The BNP leader said their ongoing blockade was successful with the spontaneous support of the coun-try’s people.
The fresh blockade program was announced around 14 hours before the end of the opposition’s 48-hour nationwide blockade that was enforced at 6am on Sunday. The ongoing blockade has been marked by widespread incidents of violence, including torching and vandalizing vehicles.
BNP and other opposition parties, including Jamaat-e-Islami, have been enforcing blockades across the country in fourth phases since Oct 31.
