UNB, Dhaka :The BNP-led 20-party alliance on Thursday threatened to enforce another spell of hartal from Sunday if the government does not meet its various demands, including snap polls.In a statement, BNP joint secretary General Salauddin Ahmed issued the threat.He also said their non-stop blockade which was enforced on January 6 will continue to mount pressure on the government to concede to their demands.”The country’s people hope that good sense will prevail upon the government and it will quit power soon accepting the mass demands to save the nation from the current serious crisis by restoring peace and order in the country,” Salauddin said.He further said, “We’ll be forced to enforce tougher programmes, including hartal, from March 1 on Sunday, if the government denies doing that and remains unmoved on its stance on not accepting mass people’s demands.”The BNP leader warned that all the autocratic regimes in the past had failed to hang onto power by ignoring people’s demands. “The current Awami League government dream of clinging to power will also be shattered in the face of people’s strong movement.”The BNP-led 20-party alliance had enforced hartal for five consecutive days from Sunday last four weeks, forcing the authorities concerned to reschedule the Secondary Scholl Certificate (SSC) exams that fell during the hartal hours.The alliance’s fourth spell of 120-hour hartal that began at 6am on Sunday will end at 6am Friday. The hartal is going on alongside the BNP alliance’s non-stop countrywide transport blockade.BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia enforced the blockade for an indefinite period on January 5 after having failed to come out of her Gulshan office to join a planned rally of the 20-party alliance in the city to mark ‘Democracy Killing Day’.
