‘People thwarted illogical shutdown’

Home Minister MK Alamgir on Thursday dubbed the 36-hour shutdown ‘illogical’ and said people had rejected it.

  

“There is no logic behind this shutdown. People have rejected it,” he said at the secretariat.
He rubbished the BNP for describing the shutdown as being ‘effective’.
“Ask them (BNP), how many cars were burned? Who financed the violence?” he said.
“They are imposing their minority opinions on others. We are trying our best to suppress these efforts,” he said.
Opposition 18-Party alliance called for the 36-hour shutdown demanding release of their detained leaders – nabbed from BNP headquarters on Mar 11.

Earlier on Mar 18-19, they had carried out a similar 36-hour shutdown.