BNP calls hartal in Bhola for Thursday
03 August 2022, 08:31 pm | Updated: 23 November 2024, 07:38 am
BNP has called a dawn-to-dusk hartal in the Bhola district for Thursday in protest the killing of district Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) president Nure Alam. The hartal will be observed from 6am to 6pm in the district on the day.
Bhola district BNP president Golam Nabi Alamgir announced the hartal on Wednesday (August 3).
Nure Alam suffereded bullet wounds during a clash with police on Sunday.
BNP’s Bhola unit Joint General Secretary Humayun Kabir Sopan said Nure Alam was taken to Comfort Diagnostic Centre in the capital on the same day where he succumbed to his injures around 3:15 pm Wednesday. He had been on life support at the hospital.
As part of BNP’s countrywide demonstration programme protesting the ongoing load shedding and mismanagement in the power sector, the leaders and activists of the party gathered in front of their district party office in Bhola on Sunday.
At one stage, police obstructed them when they tried to stage demonstrations at Kalinath Roy Bazar around 11:30 am, triggering a clash.
Later, police fired bullets and lobbed teargas shells that left local Swechchasebak Dal leader Abdur Rahim dead and some other leaders and activists of the party injured.
