Chittagong Bureau :
The first day of the 72 hours hartal called by the BNP- led 20-party alliance passed off peacefully in the port city without any major incidents except hurling of few blasts of cocktails and hand bombs.
The hartal began on first day of the language movement month of great Ekushey Februray.
The civic life in Chittagong city and district was normal yesterday despite hartal called by BNP-led 20 party alliance to press home their de mands .The hartal calls of the 20-party alliance gets poor response in city and elsewhere in the district.
The hartal enforced by BNP-led 20-party alliance amid blockade is underway in a relaxed mood since yesterday morning.The 72hrs hartal of the alliance gets poor response over all, different sources said. No news of any picketing or processions in favour of the hartal received by any quarters of the law enforcers, sources said.
No bus on long-distance and inter-district routes either left or entered in the city. Private cars and public transports were hardly seen plying on the city thoroughfare. However, light vehicles like commuter service, tempos, auto rickshaws were seen plying as usual.
The city roads fully occupied by the rickshaws and motor run rickshaws. Inter-city and local mail trains are running on schedule.
Flight schedule from Ctg international airport remain uninterrupted. Port sources said the cargo handling activities inside the inner berth and outer berth remained as usual but no consignment was delivered from the port shed.
The attendances in govt, semi govt , banks offices did not hampered and transactions in banks remained undisturbed. However, the educational institutions remained closed for3 days due to hartal call and the schedule SSC exams of today have been shifted to Friday next.
Security measures have been tightened across the city and the districts. Along with additional police forces, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel are put on duty during hartal hours.
Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) additional commissioner (crime and operation) Banaj Kumar Mazumder told that additional police remained deployed and six platoons of BGB have also been kept deployed.”
CMP additional deputy commissioner (Detective Branch) M Hasan Chowdhury told this correspondent that a total of 2,000 additional forces have been deployed to avert destructive activities of the hartal picketers.
“If anyone wants to carry out sabotages, police will prevent them in strong hands,’ Hasan warned.
The alliance called the shutdown in protest of confining BNP chief Khaleda Zia to her office, arresting the alliance leaders and activists and filing ‘false’ cases against them across the country and police atrocities in the houses of the BNP leaders.
The hartal call announced in press statement signed by Joint General secretary of BNP Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Friday last.
The first day of the 72 hours hartal called by the BNP- led 20-party alliance passed off peacefully in the port city without any major incidents except hurling of few blasts of cocktails and hand bombs.
The hartal began on first day of the language movement month of great Ekushey Februray.
The civic life in Chittagong city and district was normal yesterday despite hartal called by BNP-led 20 party alliance to press home their de mands .The hartal calls of the 20-party alliance gets poor response in city and elsewhere in the district.
The hartal enforced by BNP-led 20-party alliance amid blockade is underway in a relaxed mood since yesterday morning.The 72hrs hartal of the alliance gets poor response over all, different sources said. No news of any picketing or processions in favour of the hartal received by any quarters of the law enforcers, sources said.
No bus on long-distance and inter-district routes either left or entered in the city. Private cars and public transports were hardly seen plying on the city thoroughfare. However, light vehicles like commuter service, tempos, auto rickshaws were seen plying as usual.
The city roads fully occupied by the rickshaws and motor run rickshaws. Inter-city and local mail trains are running on schedule.
Flight schedule from Ctg international airport remain uninterrupted. Port sources said the cargo handling activities inside the inner berth and outer berth remained as usual but no consignment was delivered from the port shed.
The attendances in govt, semi govt , banks offices did not hampered and transactions in banks remained undisturbed. However, the educational institutions remained closed for3 days due to hartal call and the schedule SSC exams of today have been shifted to Friday next.
Security measures have been tightened across the city and the districts. Along with additional police forces, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel are put on duty during hartal hours.
Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) additional commissioner (crime and operation) Banaj Kumar Mazumder told that additional police remained deployed and six platoons of BGB have also been kept deployed.”
CMP additional deputy commissioner (Detective Branch) M Hasan Chowdhury told this correspondent that a total of 2,000 additional forces have been deployed to avert destructive activities of the hartal picketers.
“If anyone wants to carry out sabotages, police will prevent them in strong hands,’ Hasan warned.
The alliance called the shutdown in protest of confining BNP chief Khaleda Zia to her office, arresting the alliance leaders and activists and filing ‘false’ cases against them across the country and police atrocities in the houses of the BNP leaders.
The hartal call announced in press statement signed by Joint General secretary of BNP Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Friday last.
