Staff Reporter :
There is no respite for the people as the indefinite blockade called by Bangladesh Nationalist Party led 20-party alliance continued for the fourth day on Friday across the country.
The people, especially the intending Biswa Ijtema devotees, yesterday faced the worst problems to reach the Prayer ground at Tongi adjacent to capital Dhaka from different parts of the country. Many intending Biswa Ijtema devotees also got stranded at different places on their way to Tongi.
Apart from this, the blockade continued to mess up schedules of all the ongoing admission tests, adding to the miseries of students and their parents.
As thousands of goods-laden vehicles got stranded for several days on the highways due to the blockade, police have been deployed to escort them through the violence-prone areas.
Sporadic incidents of violence and clashes marked the fourth day of the countrywide blockade in capital Dhaka as well elsewhere in the country. However, the intensity of violence and damages were apparently lesser than the previous days.
Throughout the entire country, the blockaders took to the streets, torched many vehicles and engaged in confrontations with the law enforcers. Police fired gunshots, rubber bullets and tear gas canisters to bring the situation under control, while a number of people were injured.
As the situation still remains volatile, the capital city has been all but cut off from the rest of the country for fear of violent escalations since Sunday.
The blockaders, who took to the streets, brought out processions, vandalised vehicles and staged demonstration, were the activists of mainly Jamaat-Shibir. The leaders and workers of major political party BNP were not found on the streets in the capital as elsewhere across the country.
BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia expressed dissatisfaction over her leaders and workers as they remain off the streets to avoid arrest, according to party sources.
She asked the party leaders and workers to take to streets and raise their voice against what she terms ‘government’s repression and oppression’.
BNP joint secretary general and spokesman Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed on Friday said that the blockade would continue as the party mulls intensifying the agitation to press home its demands for fresh poll under non-party caretaker government and release of all arrested leaders.
About the ruling party leaders’ criticisms for carrying on the blockade programme during the Biswa Ijtema, Rizvi said, “The Biwa Ijtema has begun and our blockade is also on.”
There is no respite for the people as the indefinite blockade called by Bangladesh Nationalist Party led 20-party alliance continued for the fourth day on Friday across the country.
The people, especially the intending Biswa Ijtema devotees, yesterday faced the worst problems to reach the Prayer ground at Tongi adjacent to capital Dhaka from different parts of the country. Many intending Biswa Ijtema devotees also got stranded at different places on their way to Tongi.
Apart from this, the blockade continued to mess up schedules of all the ongoing admission tests, adding to the miseries of students and their parents.
As thousands of goods-laden vehicles got stranded for several days on the highways due to the blockade, police have been deployed to escort them through the violence-prone areas.
Sporadic incidents of violence and clashes marked the fourth day of the countrywide blockade in capital Dhaka as well elsewhere in the country. However, the intensity of violence and damages were apparently lesser than the previous days.
Throughout the entire country, the blockaders took to the streets, torched many vehicles and engaged in confrontations with the law enforcers. Police fired gunshots, rubber bullets and tear gas canisters to bring the situation under control, while a number of people were injured.
As the situation still remains volatile, the capital city has been all but cut off from the rest of the country for fear of violent escalations since Sunday.
The blockaders, who took to the streets, brought out processions, vandalised vehicles and staged demonstration, were the activists of mainly Jamaat-Shibir. The leaders and workers of major political party BNP were not found on the streets in the capital as elsewhere across the country.
BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia expressed dissatisfaction over her leaders and workers as they remain off the streets to avoid arrest, according to party sources.
She asked the party leaders and workers to take to streets and raise their voice against what she terms ‘government’s repression and oppression’.
BNP joint secretary general and spokesman Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed on Friday said that the blockade would continue as the party mulls intensifying the agitation to press home its demands for fresh poll under non-party caretaker government and release of all arrested leaders.
About the ruling party leaders’ criticisms for carrying on the blockade programme during the Biswa Ijtema, Rizvi said, “The Biwa Ijtema has begun and our blockade is also on.”
