Ilias Mukti Sangram Parishad will enforce a daylong hartal in the district on August 29 demanding the tracing of missing BNP leader M Ilias Ali.
The shutdown was announced from a rally held at the Central Shaheed Minar on Saturday noon following a procession.
Activists of Ilias Mukti Sangram Parishad and associate bodies of BNP, including Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal, Chhatra Dal, Jubo Dal, Tanti Dal and Ulema Dal, brought out the procession from Dhopadihirpar in the city marking 16 months into the disappearance of the Ilias.
The procession ended at the Shaheed Minar after parading some city streets. Later, the processionists held a rally at the Shaheed Minar.
District BNP general secretary Abdul Gaffar and Ilias Mukti Sangram Parishad joint convener and Swechchhasebak Dal vice-president Shamsuzzaman Zaman, among others, addressed the rally with Parishad convener Sheikh Mokan Miah in the chair.
Speakers said they announced the hartal following their as part of their continued programmes demanding the tracing of the Ilias, BNP organising secretary and its district unit president.
Ilias Ali, also former MP, went missing along with his driver on April 17 midnight last year.
Source: UNBConnect