A fresh 48-hour blockade across the country called by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its allies in the ongoing one-point movement began Wednesday (November 8) morning.

Earlier on Monday (November 6), Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, the senior joint secretary general, announced the programme at a virtual press briefing.

BNP previously enforced a 72-hour blockade starting October 31, following the violence centring BNP's rally on October 28.

The parties also enforced a 48-hour blockade program across the country from Sunday (November 5) morning to press home their one-point demand of immediate resignation of the ruling government.

The main opposition BNP on Tuesday (November 7) claimed that around 9,000 of its leaders and activists was arrested in countrywide raids that started days before their scheduled grand rally on October 28.

On October 28, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir suspended the grand rally in the capital's Nayapaltan and announced the hartal.

BNP claimed that the rally was suspended as police fired rubber bullets, flash grenades and lobbed tear gas shells, forcing the BNP leaders and activists to leave the rally venue.

BNP, Jamaat and like-minded parties observed the dawn to dusk countrywide hartal on October 29 in protest of the recent police action during the party's Nayapaltan rally.

BDST: 1036 HRS, NOV 08, 2023
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