The Bhola unit of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party has called a dawn-to-dusk hartal in the district for Thursday protesting against the death of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal district unit president Nure Alam in a clash between police and BNP activists.
The strike will be observed from 6:00am to 6:00pm in the district on the day, BNP’s Bhola unit joint general secretary Humayun Kabir Sopan said Wednesday.
Nure Alam suffered bullet wounds during a clash with police on July 31.
Humayun Kabir said that Nure Alam was taken to Comfort Diagnostic Centre in Dhaka on the same day where he succumbed to his injures at about 3:00pm on Wednesday. He had been on life support at the hospital.
As part of BNP’s countrywide demonstration programme protesting at 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 at about 11:30am, 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.
