Transport workers go on strike

Transport workers of buses and minibuses in Lalmonirhat went on an indefinite strike yesterday to press home their four-point demand.

Transport workers from Teesta to Burimari Land Port in the district have enforced the strike simultaneously since yesterday morning, said the workers.

Their demands are arrest of their leaders who sold their organisation's property and embezzled the money, a stop to thuggery at bus terminal, an end to attack on transport workers by hired goons and arrest of those who attacked their president's filling station.

Bappi Islam, one of the protesters, said, "We will not join work until our demands are met."

Passengers had to suffer due to the sudden bus strike. They were forced to spend more money on battery-run auto-rickshaw to go to their destinations.