72-hr hartal again from Sunday

The BNP-led 20-party alliance has called for a fresh spell of 72-hour countrywide hartal from Sunday morning to press home their demands that include general elections under a nonparty administration.

The shutdown, beginning at 6:00am Sunday, will continue till 6:00am Wednesday, according to a press statement issued by BNP Joint Secretary General Salauddin Ahmed on behalf of the alliance this afternoon.

Besides, the alliance has announced to bring out “mass processions” across the country on Monday.

The hartal will be enforced on top of the nonstop blockade that began on January 6.

The BNP-led alliance has enforced a series of general strikes across the country on all working days since February 1.

The shutdown is also meant to protest “extra judicial killings by law enforcers, killing of opposition leaders and activists in the name of crossfire, abduction, repression, and filing of false cases against alliance leaders”.