Separate hartals enforced by the district units of BNP, Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal and the BNP-led 18-party alliance in Manikganj, Bogra and Surma (South) upazila of Sylhet passed by peacefully.
In Manikganj, the daylong hartal went by peacefully with no incidents of violence being reported from there.
Rickshaws and human haulers were seen plying the roads in the town.
No long-route buses, except some minibuses, left the town.
Earlier, local unit BNP called in a dawn-to-dusk hartal in the district yesterday protesting the removal of the name of BNP Senior Vice-chairman Tarique Rahman from the voters list and demanding withdrawal of the names of BNP leaders from “false cases.”
In Bogra, BNP activists, led by the district unit BNP president, brought out separate processions at Sutrapur in the city, reports UNB.
Four crude bombs were set off at that time.
Police and Rab were patrolling the key points in the district.
Earlier, the 18-party alliance called the 60-hour hartal from Tuesday protesting BNP Senior Vice-chairman Tarique Rahman’s name being dropped from the voters list.
The non-stop hartal will end at 6:00 pm today.
In Sylhet, Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the student front of BNP, called in a half-day hartal in Surma Dakhkhin upazila for yesterday in protest of the police assault on their party men during the blockade programme and for the cases filed against them.
Al-Mamun, senior vice-president of Surma (South) unit Chhatra Dal, announced the shutdown in the upazila from a rally in the upazila headquarters in the afternoon.
