Relaxed hartal in Dhaka
Despite a 24-hour countrywide hartal enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami across the country, Dhaka city dwellers came out in streets and performed their daily jobs as usual today.
No unexpected incident was reported from any part of Dhaka or somewhere else till filing this report around 11:00am.
On Wednesday, Jamaat-e-Islami called 48-hour hartals for Thursday and Sunday (today), protesting the Supreme Court verdict that sentenced its leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee imprisonment until death for his wartime offences.
Vehicular movement remains normal like other days. A good number of private car owners have dared to come out to the city roads defying today’s hartal.
Commuters also are seen waiting for buses to go to their offices and other destinations in the morning as the normal days.
Only long distance buses have not left terminals for the destinations in Dhaka and other districts of the country during the hartal hours.
The shutdown which started at 6:00am will continue for 6:00am Monday.
But there will be no respite for people after the hartal ends tomorrow morning, as the BNP-led alliance has called a daylong nationwide shutdown starting the same morning.
With the latest programme, the country is in the grip of 36-hour shutdown.
The 20-party alliance announced the hartal in protest at the amendment to the constitution that empowered parliament to remove Supreme Court judges for misbehaviour and incapacity.
In a pre-hartal raid, police detained 27 activists of Jamaat and its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir, from different places in Satkhira suspecting that they might carry out subversive activities during the hartal.
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