Ilias Mukti Sangram Parishad will enforce a daylong general strike in Sylhet on August 29 demanding the tracking down of missing BNP leader M Ilias Ali.
The shutdown was announced at a rally held at the Central Shaheed Minar yesterday at noon following a procession.
Activists of Ilias Mukti Sangram Parishad and associate bodies of BNP, including Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal, Chhatra Dal, Jubo Dal, Tanti Dal and Ulema Dal, brought out the procession from Dhopadihirpar in the city, marking 16 months since the disappearance of Ilias. The procession ended at the Shaheed Minar.
District BNP General Secretary Abdul Gaffar and Ilias Mukti Sangram Parishad joint convener and Swechchhasebak Dal Vice-President Shamsuzzaman Zaman, among others, addressed the rally with Parishad Convener Sheikh Mokan Miah in the chair.
Speakers said they announced the hartal as part of their continued programmes demanding the tracing of Ilias, BNP Organising Secretary and its district unit president.
Ilias Ali, also a former MP, went missing along with his driver at midnight on April 17 last year.
