Sylhet Zila Sarak Paribahan Malik-Sramik Oikya Parishad, a combined platform of the district road transport owners and workers, on Monday announced that they would go on a transport strike for indefinite period in the district from today.
They have called the strike to press home their six-point demand, including the cancellation of Section 36 of the Road Transport Act 2018.
Sylhet Zila Sarak Paribahan Bus-Minibus Coach-Microbus Workers Union president Moynul Hossain made the announcement on behalf of the platform at a press conference held at a city hotel in the evening.
Mentioning that authorities of Sylhet Metropolitan Police, Bangladesh Road Transport Owners Association and Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation were already informed about the movement programme, he said at the press conference that they would continue the strike until their demands were met.
Their other demands included opening stone quarries for extracting stones in manual processes, withdrawal of the increased tax imposed on public transport vehicles, snapping power connections to the stone crushing mills, and withdrawal of deputy commissioner Mohammed Sher Mahbub Murad, according to the announcement.
Leaders of Sylhet Zila CNG-Auto-rickshaw, Auto-Tempo, Taxi, Taxi Car Malik Samiti (registration No Chatto-2785), however, denied their involvement in the transport strike called by Sylhet District Sarak Paribahan Malik-Shramik Oikya Parishad.
The association executive president Jamil Ahmed Liton and general secretary Anowar Hossain, made the claim at a meeting held in the afternoon in front of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority office in the city.
