BNP alliance calls hartal for Monday
Saturday, 20 September 2014
The BNP-led 20-party alliance on Saturday called a daylong countrywide hartal for Monday protesting the constitutional amendment empowering parliament to remove Supreme Court judges. The BNP alliance’s shutdown will begin at 6am on Monday, right after Bangladesh’s Jamaat-e-Islami’s 24-hour lockdown which is set to start at 6am on Sunday and end at 6am on Monday. BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the shutdown programme at a press briefing at BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan office, according to a news agency.