Petrol pump owners to go on strike from tomorrow

Petrol pump and tank-lorry owners and workers announced an indefinite strike across the country from tomorrow to press home their nine-point demands, including a hike in commission on fuel sales.
Bangladesh Petrol Pump and Tank-Lorry Owners-Workers Unity Council leaders, at a press briefing yesterday at the council's office in the capital, said during the strike there will be no fuel transportation across the country and that they will also refrain from supplying fuel to the aircrafts.
Nazmul Haq, convener of the council, said the ministry of power and energy has not taken any initiative to meet their demands before January 20, the deadline set by the owners and workers of petrol pump and tank-lorry.
He said they met leaders of Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) and urged them to solve the problems but they [BPC leaders] did not take any initiative to meet the nine-point demands, according to a press release.
Nazmul said they will enforce the strike from 6:00am tomorrow.
Their demands include a 3.4 percent hike in commission on sales of diesel and 4 percent on sales of petrol and octane and increase of fares of tank-lorries due to price hike of fuel.
Nazmul Haq told The Daily Star that around 10,000 owners and workers across the country will observe the strike.