Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)-led 20-Party Alliance has called another spell of 72-hour countrywide hartal from 6:00am Sunday.

The fresh enforcement of 72-hour shutdown will end on Wednesday 6:00am, said a party statement on Friday.

Signed by BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed, on behalf of the alliance, the statement said that the shutdown programme was aimed at resorting democracy and people’s voting right, and protesting government’s repressive acts and growing incidents of extrajudicial killing. 

The alliance also called protest programme across the country on Monday.

Salahuddin said the hartal would continue alongside their ongoing countrywide transport blockade.  

The alliance has been calling hartal intermittently amid its one and half-month-long non-stop blockade programme that started on 5 January in a bid to press home its demand of holding early elections under non-party administration.