The BNP-led 20-Party Alliance has called a dawn-to-dusk shutdown for Monday protesting against the 16th Constitutional Amendment empowering Parliament to remove Supreme Court judges on grounds of incompetence or misconduct. BNP’s spokesperson Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made the announcement at a media call on Saturday at party chief Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office. The party has been opposing the 16th Amendment alleging the government plans to impose itself on the judiciary through it. BNP’s key ally Jamaat-e-Islami had announced last week to enforce a nationwide shutdown for Sunday in protest against its leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee’s life-in-prison term on war crimes charges. –bdnews24.com
