Bangladesh Nationalist Party has called for dawn-to-dusk hartal [general strike] in the country on September 22, 2011 protesting government’s decision of exorbitantly increasing the prices of the petroleum products. Ruling party leaders have already instructed members of Bangladesh Awami League as well as the Grand Alliance for “confronting” the general strike of the opposition. Join secretary of the ruling party, Mahbubul Huq Hanif has been more enthusiastic in instructing his party workers and supporters in “physically assaulting the pro-hartal [general strike] activists and later handing them over to the law enforcing agencies. The home minister, Advocate Sahara Khatun has asked the law enforcing agencies to “combat hartal with taugher hands”. Leading figures in the ruling party have instructed their party workers and activists to “occupy roads of Dhaka” on the hartal day, and “do anything in giving a proper lesson” to the opposition political party. The leaders called upon the workers and supporters of “combating the political enemies of Bangladesh Awami League on the streets during the anti-people hartal of Bangladesh Nationalist Party.” [Read More]

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Source: Weekly Blitz :: Writings