Chittagong Bureau :
The first day of the 36 hours hartal called by the BNP led 20-party alliance across the country passed off peacefully in the port city yesterday.
The civic life in Chittagong city and district was normal yesterday despite hartal called by BNP-led 20 party alliance. The hartal calls of the 20-party alliance gets poor response in city and elsewhere in the district.
The 36-hour hartal so enforced by BNP-led 20-party alliance amid blockade is underway in a relaxed mood across in Chittagong district elsewhere in the country since yesterday morning.
The 36hrs hartal of the alliance gets poor response over all, different sources said.Meanwhile Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal at the same time called daylong hartal yesterday in greater Chittagong protesting the arrest of central JCD leader Ferdous Ahmed Munna who was arrested from Purana paltan in Dhaka on January 21 last.
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 schedules.
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 for two days due to hartal call.
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 police 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 city BNP president in his press statement recently demanded unconditional release of the BNP and alliance leaders otherwise tougher movement will be enforced he announced.
The first day of the 36 hours hartal called by the BNP led 20-party alliance across the country passed off peacefully in the port city yesterday.
The civic life in Chittagong city and district was normal yesterday despite hartal called by BNP-led 20 party alliance. The hartal calls of the 20-party alliance gets poor response in city and elsewhere in the district.
The 36-hour hartal so enforced by BNP-led 20-party alliance amid blockade is underway in a relaxed mood across in Chittagong district elsewhere in the country since yesterday morning.
The 36hrs hartal of the alliance gets poor response over all, different sources said.Meanwhile Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal at the same time called daylong hartal yesterday in greater Chittagong protesting the arrest of central JCD leader Ferdous Ahmed Munna who was arrested from Purana paltan in Dhaka on January 21 last.
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 schedules.
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 for two days due to hartal call.
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 police 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 city BNP president in his press statement recently demanded unconditional release of the BNP and alliance leaders otherwise tougher movement will be enforced he announced.
