<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">The BNP and like-minded parties will now enforce another round of 48-hour road-rail-waterway blockade across the country beginning from Wednesday to mount pressure on the government to step down and hold the next election under a non-partisan administration.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The opposition parties gave a break from its action programme on Tuesday as the BNP considers November 7 as the ‘National Revolution and Solidarity Day’, marking the ‘civil-military uprising' of November 7, 1975.</div><div><br></div><div>BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the programme at a virtual press briefing on Monday evening.</div><div><br></div><div>He said the blockade programme will be observed from 6am Wednesday to 6am Friday across the country.</div><div><br></div><div>The other opposition parties, who have long been carrying out the simultaneous movement with BNP, also announced a similar programme by issuing press releases.</div><div><br></div><div>Rizvi claimed that their ongoing blockade was being observed successfully with the full support of the country’s people.</div><div><br></div><div>He thanked leaders and activists of BNP and like-minded parties to make the blockade programme a success.</div><div><br></div><div>The fresh agitation was announced on the last day of the opposition’s 48-hour nationwide blockade which has been marked by widespread incidents of violence, including clashes with police and torching and vandalising vehicles.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier in the last week, the opposition’s three-day countrywide blockade passed off amid clashes and widespread incidents of torching and vandalising vehicles, leaving four people--three in Kishoreganj and one in Sylhet—killed and over three dozen of vehicles either torched or vandalized.</div><div><br></div><div>They also observed a nationwide dawn-to-dusk hartal on Sunday in protest against the attacks on BNP’s grand rally at Nayapaltan that ended amid the incidents of torching vehicles and clashes, leaving three people dead.</div><div><br></div><div>Half an hour into the start of BNP's much-talked-about grand rally at Nayapaltan on October 28, BNP 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. According to UNB reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>