Second day of BNP-Jamaat blockade underway

The second day of the countrywide two-day blockade, enforced by the BNP, Jamaat and like-minded opposition parties, is underway today (Monday).

On Sunday, the first day of the blockade, there were clashes, attacks, vandalism and burning of cars in different parts of the country.

Earlier, after a two-day hiatus, BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami, and their political allies once again returned to the streets to enforce a 48-hour countrywide road-rail-waterway blockade to mount pressure on the government to quit and hold the next general elections under a non-partisan administration.

Twenty-seven platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) were deployed in Dhaka and adjoining districts to maintain law and order situation.