Local units of BNP on Tuesday called separate hartals in Comilla, Rajshahi, Sirajganj and Sylhet for Wednesday and Thursday. In Comilla, district (south) unit BNP will enforce an eight-hour hartal in the district on Thursday protesting the killing of auto-rickshaw driver Delwar Hossain and rickshaw-puller Babul Miah.Mostaq Ahmed, organising secretary of the BNP unit, announced the shutdown from the namaz-e-janaza for Delwar in the city at noon.
Human-hauler driver Delwar Hossain, 25, was killed in a clash between activists of the BNP-led 18-party alliance and cops at Monaharpur in the city on Monday night.
Meanwhile, rickshaw-puller Babul Miah was killed and 10 other were injured in police firing during a clash between police and opposition 18-party activists in Doulotganj Dighirpar area in Laksam upazila on Tuesday.
In Rajshahi, local BNP called a half-day hartal in the district for Wednesday protesting Tuesday’s police attack on party activists that left 70 people injured.
Addressing a press briefing, BNP leader Mizanur Rahman Minu announced the hartal programme to be observed from 6 am to 12 pm.
At least 70 people, including city unit BNP general secretary Shafiqul Haque Milon, were injured in a clash with police when the BNP activists tried to block Zero Point in Sahebazar area of the city in the morning while enforcing 18-party alliance’s 48-hour rail-road-waterway blockade programme.
In Sirajganj, local BNP will enforce a daylong hartal in the district on Thursday protesting the killing of a pro-blockade activist.
A man drowned after jumping into a pond in a bid to get away from police during a clash between the law enforcers and blockaders at Jogaimore in the district town on Tuesday morning.
In Sylhet, Biswanath upazila unit BNP called a daylong hartal in the upazila for Wednesday protesting the arrest of party men, including upazila unit general secretary Gous Khan, on Tuesday. – UNB
