The BNP will enforce a daylong hartal across the country on Monday to protest the schedule for the next national election announced by the Election Commission (EC).
It will be the fourth call of hartal by the opposition party since October 29, to go with eleven blockades that have together disrupted normal life and business every week.
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the fresh programme at a virtual press briefing on Saturday. The hartal will begin at 6am on Monday and end at 6pm the same day.
He called upon the country`s people and the supporters of BNP and other opposition parties to observe the programme spontaneously to make it a success.
Rizvi said the fresh hartal programme is also meant to mount pressure on the government to quit, hold the next election under a non-party neutral government and release party leaders and activists, including its secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.
The BNP and like-minded parties also observed a human chain programme all over the country on December 10, as a way to mark International Human Rights Day.
