Hartal observed in Noakhali
Noakhali, May 22 (UNB) - The BNP-sponsored dawn-to-dusk hartal was observed in the district almost peacefully on Tuesday.
The district unit of BNP enforced the daylong shutdown protesting the sending of BNP joint secretary general Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon to jail by a Dhaka court in a vehicle torching case on Monday.
Most of the vehicles went off the roads while educational institutions, shopping malls and business establishments remained closed during the hartal hours.
Additional police were deployed at strategic points of the town and upazila headquarters to fend off any untoward incident. BNP leaders and activists brought out processions in support of the hartal in the district town and upazila headquarters.
Pro-hartal activists put up barricade on Laksam-Sonaimuri road at Chashirhat at Dattabari intersection in the district town to halt traffic.
They also vandalised a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Dattabari intersection during the hartal hours. Picketers stopped an ambulance at Afaniar Pool in Sonaimuri upazila and vandalized it.
Jubo League and Bangladesh Chhatra League also brought out an anti-hartal procession in Chatkhil upazila in the morning.
Noakhali BNP president M Shahjahan claimed that police arrested 72 leaders and activists of his party on Monday night and during Tuesday’s hartal.
However, police said they arrested six pickets as they tried to create chaos in the name of hartal.
Shahjahan thanked people for making the hartal a success.
He said they would announce their next course of action after discussion with the central high command.
The Higher Secondary Certificate and its equivalent examinations scheduled to be held on Tuesday have been shifted to May 26 due to the hartal.
Earlier, on Monday, BNP men brought out processions at different places of the district in support of the hartal and to press for the release of the 18-party leaders arrested in a vehicle torching case.
The case was filed for torching a bus near the Prime Minister’s Office during hartal on April 29.
The district unit of BNP enforced the daylong shutdown protesting the sending of BNP joint secretary general Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon to jail by a Dhaka court in a vehicle torching case on Monday.
Most of the vehicles went off the roads while educational institutions, shopping malls and business establishments remained closed during the hartal hours.
Additional police were deployed at strategic points of the town and upazila headquarters to fend off any untoward incident. BNP leaders and activists brought out processions in support of the hartal in the district town and upazila headquarters.
Pro-hartal activists put up barricade on Laksam-Sonaimuri road at Chashirhat at Dattabari intersection in the district town to halt traffic.
They also vandalised a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Dattabari intersection during the hartal hours. Picketers stopped an ambulance at Afaniar Pool in Sonaimuri upazila and vandalized it.
Jubo League and Bangladesh Chhatra League also brought out an anti-hartal procession in Chatkhil upazila in the morning.
Noakhali BNP president M Shahjahan claimed that police arrested 72 leaders and activists of his party on Monday night and during Tuesday’s hartal.
However, police said they arrested six pickets as they tried to create chaos in the name of hartal.
Shahjahan thanked people for making the hartal a success.
He said they would announce their next course of action after discussion with the central high command.
The Higher Secondary Certificate and its equivalent examinations scheduled to be held on Tuesday have been shifted to May 26 due to the hartal.
Earlier, on Monday, BNP men brought out processions at different places of the district in support of the hartal and to press for the release of the 18-party leaders arrested in a vehicle torching case.
The case was filed for torching a bus near the Prime Minister’s Office during hartal on April 29.
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