The nationwide 72-hour road-rail-waterway blockade, enforced by the BNP-led 18-party alliance, entered the second day today (Sunday).
The blockade started at 6:00am on Saturday and it will continue until 6:00am Tuesday.
Besides, a 24-hour shutdown, enforced by city unit BNP, protesting the arrest of its convener Sadeque Hossain Khoka, got underway in the capital at 6 am today (Sunday) amid the blockade programme.
The shutdown in the city will end at 6am on Monday.
Meanwhile, the first day of the blockade was marked by violent incidents like clashes, arson attacks, bomb blasts and vandalism without major incidents in different parts of the country.
Besides, a minor boy Mahir Ahmed, 6, and his father Majedur Rahman, 45, suffered bullet wounds as police opened fire on a Jamaat-Shibir procession at the city’s Malibagh Chowdhury Para on the day.
After the end of 131-hour blockade programme protesting the election schedule, BNP joint secretary general Salauddin Ahmed on Thursday announced the 72-hour nationwide blockade through a video message sent from an undisclosed location.
The opposition combine has already enforced 202 hours of road-rail-waterway blockade across the country in two spells -– 71-hour and 131-hour ones — after the announcement of the election schedule for the 10th parliamentary elections that left at least 45 people dead.
On November 25, the Chief Election Commissioner announced that the 10th parliamentary elections will be held on January 5 next.
Source: UNBConnect
