Indefinite transport strike begins in Brahmanbaria
Vehicular movement came to a halt to and from the district headquarters as transport owners and workers enforced an indefinite strike yesterday.
Brahmanbaria Bus-Minibus Owners and Workers Oikya Parishad called the strike to realise their seven-point demand.
The demands include withdrawal of unauthorised vehicles and CNG-run auto-rickshaws from the highways and eviction of illegally built roadside makeshift shops.
Brahmanbaria Bus-Minibus Owners and Workers Oikya Parishad General Secretary Mohammad Hanif said they have demanding to the authorities concerned to shift the illegally erected CNG-run auto-rickshaw stands at different points on Dhaka-Sylhet and Cumilla-Sylhet highways to elsewhere for long.
Due to plying of unauthorised vehicles on the highways, transport business has now become a non-profitable venture, Hanif said, adding that they will continue the strike till their demands are not met.
During a visit to different spots yesterday morning, this correspondent saw transport workers were staging demonstrations at different points of the town, including Kawtali, Bhadughar and Medda Bus Stand areas.
Although small vehicles like microbus, battery-run three-wheelers and easy-bikes were seen plying on different roads, long distance buses and trucks remained off the roads.
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