The opposition BNP has announced another 48-hour blockade starting Wednesday morning as the party and its allies enforce a nationwide blockade set to end early Tuesday.
Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, senior joint secretary general of the party, made the announcement in a virtual press conference on Monday afternoon.
The fifth phase of the blockade will start at 6am on Wednesday and will continue till Friday 6am.
Following a brief pause over the weekend, the BNP and its like-minded parties initiated a two-day nationwide blockade on Sunday with many of its top leaders behind bars.
After a rally on October 28 that was foiled by clashes with law enforcement, the BNP called a hartal the next day and subsequently announced a three-day countrywide blockade to protest attacks on its gathering and arrest of its senior leaders.
