The BNP-led 20-party alliance has announced to bring out protest processions across the country on Sunday.
The alliance made the announcement through a press statement signed by BNP Joint Secretary General Barkatullah Bulu.
It read: “The BNP-led 20-party alliance will bring out protest procession in every district, upazila, police station, municipality and city corporation on Sunday, protesting the nationwide mass killing of the party leaders and activists and demanding the return of all missing leaders, including party’s Joint Secretary General Salahuddin Ahmed.”
In the press note issued on Saturday, the alliance has urged the countrymen to observe the programme peacefully and successfully alongside the ongoing nationwide transport blockade.
However, it did not mention any hartal that the BNP-led alliance has enforced since February 1.
Earlier on Tuesday, the alliance had apparently paused its countrywide hartal programme for Wednesday and Thursday, despite having enforced hartals during weekdays continuously since February 1.
As the country gears up to celebrate its 45th Independence Day on Wednesday, the opposition alliance abandoned its practice of extending by two days the three-day hartals it customarily calls on Sundays.
Breaking with a pattern set in early February, the BNP-led alliance did not tack on a further 48-hour hartal to the 72-hour hartal it announced at the beginning of the week.
Source: Dhaka Tribune
