The countrywide 48-hour hartal, enforced by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, in protest what it said against the government’s conspiracy to annihilate the party entered the second day today (Wednesday).
The 48-hour shutdown began at 6am on Tuesday and it will continue till 6am on Thursday, said party acting secretary general Rafiqul Islam Khan.
The shutdown is also meant for protesting the government’s “plot to ‘kill Jamaat leaders and foil the next general election”.
Hours after the High Court declared illegal its registration as a political party on August 1, Jamaat called the 48-hour countrywide hartal for August 12 and 13. It later deferred the general strike by one day to August 13 and 14.
A larger HC bench, headed by Justice M Moazzam Husain, delivered the judgment on a writ petition in the form of public interest litigation challenging the validity of the Election Commission decision that had given registration to Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami as a political party in 2008.
The first day of the 48-hour hartal was marked by stray incidents of vandalism, bomb blasts, clashes and arrests across the country on Tuesday.
Source: UNBConnect
