BNP, allies call 48-hour hartal except , Ctg.

Bangladesh Nationalist party-led alliance on Sunday called a fresh 48-hour general strike across the country coupled with its non-stop transport blockade that has been continuing since January 6. The capital and Chittagong cities would be out of the purview of the strike due to the city corporation polls, the party said. BNP joint secretary general Barkatullah Bulu in a release announced the latest round of shutdown was called from 6:00am Monday to 6:00am Wednesday across the country. The hartal was enforced for demanding the return of all forced disappeared BNP-led alliance’s leaders and activists including another BNP joint secretary general Salah Uddin Ahmed to their families, releasing all the activists and leaders including the alliance’s senior leaders who are implicated in false cases from jail, and for holding national polls under non-partisan and neutral government.

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