Ctg transport strike postponed

Chittagong, June 24 (bdnews24.com)?The indefinite transport strike, which was scheduled to be enforced in five districts of Chittagong from Sunday, has been called off.

A platform of transport owners and workers, which called the strike to push for its 12-point charter of demands, decided to postpone the programme after a discussion with the local administration on Thursday evening.

Brihattara Chattragram Sarak Paribahan Malik-Sramik Sangram Parishad called the strike on all the routes of Chittagong Metropolitan City and district, Bandarban, Rangamati, Khagrachhari and Cox's Bazar.

"We put off the strike for one month following assurance of the administration to consider our demands," Parishad convenor Abul Kalam Azad told bdnews24.com.

He, however, pointed out that previous assurances from the administration had not been materialised.

Azad warned that if their demands were not met within the one-month deadline, they would move for further programmes from Aug 1.

The parishad's 12-point demands include reducing prices of spare parts of vehicles, withdrawal of ban on vehicles older than 20 years, preventing harassment by the highway police, stop robbery on the road, prevention of BRTA corruption and terminals for all modes of vehicles.

Presided over by additional divisional commissioner Alef Uddin, the meeting was attended by Chittagong deputy commissioner Foyez Ahmed, top police officials and representatives of the Parishad.

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