The fresh spell of 83-hour nationwide road-rail-waterway blockade, called by the BNP-led 18-party alliance demanding arrangement of the 10th general election under a non-party caretaker government, got underway on Saturday morning.
The fifth spell of the protest programme, which is also meant for forcing the government to cancel the January-5 ‘farcical’ election, started at 6am and it will continue until 5pm Tuesday.
BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan announced the programme at a press conference at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office on Thursday.
Meanwhile, all the vehicles of the United Nations and the Health Department to be engaged in National Immunisation Day on Saturday will remain out of the purview of the blockade.
Besides, media vehicles, ambulances, vehicles of fire brigade and dead body-carrying vehicles will also remain out of ambit of the blocked programme.
The opposition alliance has been on nonstop agitation programmes since the Election Commission announced the election schedule on November 25 fixing the balloting date for January 5.
The 18-party has already enforced 418 hours of road-rail-waterway blockade across the country in four spells –71-hour, 131-hour, 144-hour and 72-hour ones — after the announcement of the election schedule, that left at least 78 people dead.
Source: UNBConnect
Demand of BNP for non-party caretaker govt. has been proved to be a rotten, undemocratic, rejected type of arrangement. BNP should stop activities to make their Pakistani bosses happy. They should this time accept the offer from AL to sit, discuss and finalize all issues once forever with AL and prepare themselves for 11th parliament elections. Or else they will miss this train again and will go to the hell…..