Pausing its protest for two days, the BNP will again enforce a 48-hour countrywide road-rail-waterway blockade beginning from Sunday to mount pressure on the Awami League government to quit power and hold the next election under a non-partisan administration.

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the programme at a virtual press briefing on Thursday evening.

He said the blockade programme will be observed from 6am Sunday to 6am Tuesday across the country.

Rizvi said other like-minded opposition parties will observe the same programme to realise their one-point demand.

Besides, the party will also arrange prayers on Friday in mosques after Juma in memory of those opposition leaders and activists who have been killed in police firing since Saturday.

He said special munajats will also be offered seeking the salvation of the departed souls of the slain opposition leaders and activists.

The BNP leader said their blockade was successful with the full support of the country’s people. “It also proved that our one-point demand is justified.”

He thanked leaders and activists of BNP and like-minded parties to make the blockade programme a success.

The fresh agitation was announced at the end of a three-day nationwide blockade on Thursday that has been marked by widespread incidents of violence, including clashes with police and torching and vandalising vehicles.

The party also enforced a nationwide dawn-to-dusk hartal on Sunday in protest against the attacks on its grand rally at Nayapaltan that ended amid the incidents of torching vehicles and clashes, leaving three people dead.

Half an hour into the start of BNP's much-talked-about grand rally at Nayapaltan on Saturday noon, the party's leaders and workers locked in a clash with the ruling party activists and police at Kakrail. Soon violent clashes spread around Nayapaltan, foiling the rally midway.