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Transport workers decide to withdraw strike: Quader

Published : 01 Mar 2017, 14:05

Updated : 01 Mar 2017, 14:06

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Transport workers and leaders of workers’ bodies, in principle, decided to withdraw the indefinite transport strikes across the country. The Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader confirmed this to reporters after a meeting with the leaders of the bodies on Wednesday.

The countrywide indefinite transport strikes, enforced by Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation, have entered second day today. The strikes left people in distress and caused immense sufferings to the general people in the country. In the meanwhile, other transports including CNG and rickshaw have hiked fare on the roads. The federation announced the indefinite strike across the country on Monday following a court verdict that awarded driver Mir Hossain Miru to death in a case filed over a road crash that left a woman dead in Savar on 2003. In the capital, no inter-district bus left Gabtoli, Mohakhali or Sayedabad bus terminals since Monday morning. Transport workers stopped vehicle movement on the highways and even obstructed vehicles to ply. Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation has been observing an indefinite strike in 10 districts of Khulna division since Sunday protesting the jail term of a bus driver for a road crash that killed Tareque Masud, Mishuk Munier and three others in 2011. But, the central leaders rejected their withdrawal decision .