BNP calls hartal in Ctg for Thursday

This April 7 photo shows law enforcers in the capital take BNP leaders including Abdullah Al Noman to jail.

Jatiyatabadi Swechhasebak Dal has called a dawn-to-dusk hartal (shutdown) in Chittagong city for Thursday protesting the court order that sent BNP vice chairman of Abdullah Al Noman to jail.

SK Khoda Toton, president of the front organisation of opposition BNP, announced the hartal programme from a protest rally in the city in the afternoon.

Noman, along with seven other leaders of the party, was sent to jail on April 7 in connection with seven cases.