Lawmaker demands home minister's statement in House

A member of parliament from Jatiya Party yesterday demanded that the Home Minister give a statement in the parliament on countrywide anarchy and commuter's harassment during the ongoing nationwide strike of transport workers.

“A child died in an ambulance in greater Sylhet as transport workers during their strike [on Sunday] held the vehicle for around an hour and a half,” JP MP Pir Fazlur Rahman said.

He also said transport workers are creating an anarchic situation in the country in the name of transport strike.

What was worse, the transport workers even smeared used engine oil on the faces of drivers and passengers on the road, trying to humiliate them.

The opposition MP also said the police and the home minister's inaction against the transport workers hurt everyone.

“I demand that the home minister give a statement in the House under section 300 of the rules of procedure of parliament on this issue,” Fazlur said in the last session of the current parliament.

Transport workers since Sunday morning virtually held citizens of the country hostage as the former began a 48-hour strike to force the government to bring amendments to the recently passed Road Transport Act-2018, practically cutting off the capital from the rest of the country.

Commuters underwent untold sufferings with road communications collapsed all over the country amid the work stoppage enforced by Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan-led Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation.