The countrywide indefinite transport blockade, enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance entered the 19 day on Friday as its 48-hour hartal in Dhaka and Khulna divisions ended amid stray incidents at 6am.
The the transport blockade is continuing with one side calling for end to the violence that are causing loss of life and prrperty while another side ddemands calling dialogue with specific agenda of fresh elections as precondition for ending the programme.
After the withdrawal of barricades from around the party office of Begum Khaleda Zia in Gulshan some BNP leaders had hinted that they might withdraw the blockade if the government allows them to hold a rally in Dhaka. The response from the police administration however was not clear.After two weeks of blockade the government and its affiliate organisations are accuding the Bnp and its allies of killing people in the name of their programme, while the Bnp and its allies are blame the government for sabotage and shifting the responsibility for those to the pro-blockade activists. They are also blaming the government for engajing in the killing of opposition political activists by provoking law enforcing agencies against them.
On early Friday Jishan 26, a motorcyclist was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with Rab in the Putia area of Daudkandi Upaizila under Comilla district when he ignored two successive signals to stop and reportedly fired shots from pistol.
A large number of law enforcers remained deployed in different parts of the capital to fend off any trouble.
The blockade enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance has been marked by crude bomb blasts, vandalism and arson attack in different parts of the country.
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia called the indefinite blockade from January 6 as the government did not allow her party and allies to hold protest rallies in the capital on the day before to observe ‘democracy killing day’. – News Desk
