SYLHET NEWS
Life has been slowed down in Sylhet as a BNP-enforced dawn-to-dusk hartal to protest disappearance of party leader M Ilias Ali passed off peacefully.
No untoward incidents were reported during the hartal hour, reports our Sylhet correspondent.
Swechchhasebak Dal activists staged demonstration holding black flag at Humayun Rashid Chattar in the entry point of the city at South Surma upazila.
Passenger buses and private cars stay off roads fearing vandalism.
Very few CNG run three wheelers were seen to ply the city streets.
Rickshaws were also found plying in thin numbers.
No long-route buses left the city terminal since Thursday morning.
All educational institutions, business establishments, most shops and shopping malls besides the major thoroughfares remained closed. However, the government offices were opened.
Meanwhile, the education ministry in a handout on Wednesday postponed today's Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examination under Sylhet Board and Technical Education Board citing unavoidable reasons.
A huge contingent of police was deployed at different city points and upazilas including South Surma and Balaganj, the two key points, where BNP men gathered.
On Wednesday, during a rally in Sylhet, district and city units of BNP called for the division-wide hartal for today.
Former lawmaker and BNP Organising Secretary (Sylhet Division) M Ilias Ali along with his driver has been missing since Tuesday night while BNP claimed that government agencies have picked them up to make them disappear.
Banani police recovered the abandoned car of Ilias, 48, near his Banani home around 1:30am Wednesday. They found the driver's mobile phone on the passenger seat with the car doors flung wide open.
The BNP leaders at the Wednesday's rally alleged that Sylhet city Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal Joint Secretary Iftekhar Ahmed Dinar was picked up by law enforcers on April 3 and he has been missing since.
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