UNB, Bogra :
Local BNP is set to enforce a half-day hartal in the district on Saturday demanding the release of its five leaders.
The shutdown will begin at 6am and end at 12 noon, said party sources.
VP Saiful Islam, district BNP president and an executive committee member of central BNP, announced the hartal after a joint meeting of BNP and its associate bodies on Wednesday.
The general strike is also meant for registering protest against an attack on Sadar upazila Jubo Dal president Rafiul Islam Rubel.
The party staged demonstrations in the district town on Thursday and in all 12 upazila and 21 wards of Bogra municipality on Friday to press for its demands.
A local court on December 11 sent five BNP leaders to jail in a case filed in connection with the crude bomb blast in front of district Awami League office on September 3. Another court on Wednesday denied them bail again. On the other hand, Rubel came under a terrorist attack in the district town recently.
