BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir speaks at a press conference at the party chief’s Gulshan office this afternoon. The opposition combine has called a 72-hr countywide hartal from Sunday demanding restoration of a non-party polls-time government. Photo: STAR
The BNP-led 18-party opposition combine has called a 72-hour countywide hartal from Sunday demanding restoration of a non-party polls-time government.
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the programme following a secretary general level meeting of the alliance at the BNP chief’s Gulshan office Friday afternoon.
Emerging from the hour-long meeting, Fakhrul told journalists that the opposition hoped the government would realise their demand of holding the election under a caretaker government within the stipulated time.
“Otherwise, we will be bound to take tougher programmes after the end of the hartal,” he said adding that the shutdown will start at 6:00am Sunday and will end at 6:00am Wednesday.
This is the third prolonged hartal in two weeks.
The opposition combine had earlier enforced two 60-hour long hartals on the same demand.
At least 19 people including a minor boy have lost their lives in the violence during the last two hartals.
With the new spell of three-day shutdown, the opposition has so far enforced a total of 47 days this year.
Source: The Daily Star
