Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) started patrolling the city streets on Sunday evening, ahead of Monday’s nationwide daylong hartal to be enforced the 20-party alliance. The BNP-led combine on Sunday announced the dawn-to-dusk shutdown protesting the ‘foiling’ of its scheduled Gazipur rally and demanding the release of its arrested senior leaders. The hartal that will begin at 6am and end at 6pm is also meant for registering protest against the arrest of the alliance leaders and the government dual policy in enforcing law. The BGB men were deployed at different strategic points of the city from 6pm to help maintain the law and order, said sources at the BGB headquarters. – UNB, Dhaka.
