Staff Reporter
Rtnn: The opposition BNP has announced another 48-hour blockade starting Wednesday morning as the party and its allies enforce a nationwide blockade set to end early Tuesday.

Besides, on the occasion of International Human Rights Day, the party has announced a human chain program at the district level on December 10.

Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, senior joint secretary general of the party, made the announcement in a virtual press conference on Monday afternoon.

The tenth phase of the blockade will start at 6am on Wednesday and will continue till Friday 6am.

Following a brief pause over the weekend, the BNP and its like-minded parties initiated a two-day nationwide blockade on Sunday with many of its top leaders behind bars.

 The opposition parties observed blockades in nine phases to mount pressure on the Awami League government to quit power and hold the next election under a non-partisan administration.

BNP and like-minded parties observed a nationwide dawn-to-dusk hartal on October 29 in protest against the attacks on BNP’s grand rally at Naya Paltan that ended amid the incidents of torching vehicles and clashes, leaving three people dead.

 Half an hour into the start of BNP's much-talked-about grand rally at Naya Paltan on October 28, BNP leaders and workers locked in a clash with the ruling party activists and police at Kakrail. The violent clashes soon spread around Naya Paltan, foiling the rally midway.