BNP issues back-to-back statements clarifying blockade to continue 

The BNP issued a corrected statement on Saturday clarifying that its ongoing transport blockade would continue.

Senior Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 28 March 2015, 12:46 PM
Updated : 28 March 2015, 02:28 PM

The party came out with the clarification soon after it had issued a statement that did not mention anything about its ongoing blockade, evoking speculations that the agitation programme, BNP had been enforcing since January 5, might have been withdrawn. 
 
But soon, setting to rest all speculations, the party issued the second statement stating that the blockade would continue as usual.   
 
Saturday’s first statement signed by BNP Joint Secretary General Barkatullah Bulu announced countrywide processions on Sunday demanding that “missing” leaders of the “opposition parties”, including Salahuddin Ahmed,  be returned to their respective families unharmed. 
 
But there was not mention about the transport blockade in the statement issued at 3.58pm. 
 
However, about two hours later at 5:24pm, the party issued a corrected statement clarifying that the blockade would continue.
 
Earlier on Tuesday (Mar 24), ahead of the Independence Day, BNP had issued a statement signed by its Joint Secretary General Barkatullah Bulu without mentioning anything about the shutdown, the party was enforcing then.  
 

But in that statement it had mentioned that the countrywide blockade would continue.
Since Wednesday, there has been no shutdown, which had been a regular phenomenon since the beginning of February.  
So when the BNP first issued the statement on Saturday without mentioning anything about the blockade, many had presumed that there would also be no further blockade. 
In addition to a non-stop transport blockade from Jan 5, the BNP-led coalition had been calling for shutdowns since the beginning of February except for the weekends.