The BNP and like-minded opposition parties` next round of 48-hour blockade from Sunday morning.
The blockade will encompass road-rail-waterways across the country.
The blockade will begin at 6:00am on Sunday and end at 6:00am on Tuesday. It will be the 10th round of the blockade programme of the opposition parties since October 31.
Speaking at a virtual press briefing on Saturday night, BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi called upon the country`s people and the supporters of BNP and other opposition parties to observe the programme spontaneously to make it a success.
Vehicles of the newspapers or media, ambulances and vehicles transporting oxygen cylinders and medicines will remain out of the purview of the blockade.
Earlier on Thursday, Rizvi announced a fresh blockade programme around three hours before the end of the opposition`s day-long hartal - a change up to coincide with the EC`s deadline for submitting nomination papers for said election - on the same grounds.
He said other opposition parties, who have long been carrying out the simultaneous movement with BNP, will also observe a similar programme.
The opposition parties observed blockades in eight phases to mount pressure on the Awami League government to quit power and hold the next election under a non-partisan administration.
They also observed a nationwide dawn-to-dusk hartal on October 29 in protest against the attacks on BNP`s grand rally at Nayapaltan that ended amid the incidents of torching vehicles and clashes, leaving three people dead.
Half an hour into the start of BNP`s much-talked-about grand rally at Nayapaltan on October 28, BNP leaders and workers locked in a clash with the ruling party activists and police at Kakrail. The violent clashes soon spread around Nayapaltan, foiling the rally midway.
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