BNP calls fresh hartal for Tuesday

BNP will enforce a dawn-to-dusk hartal on Tuesday for a third consecutive day for getting back its missing leader M Ilias Ali and his driver.

Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, acting secretary general of the main opposition party, on Monday also vowed to continue their movement until the two are found.

The BNP leader announced the new programme at a press briefing around an hour before the end of second's daylong hartal on Monday.

Former lawmaker and BNP Organising Secretary (Sylhet Division) M Ilias Ali along with his driver remain missing since Tuesday night.

The main opposition BNP claimed that government agencies have picked them up to make them disappear.

Sunday's hartal was announced on Wednesday after Banani police recovered the abandoned car of Ilias near his Banani home in the capital.

They found the driver's mobile phone on the passenger seat with the car’s doors flung wide open.

Earlier on Thursday, BNP observed a hartal in Sylhet division on the same issue.