Sylhet Correspondent :
Transport strike on the Dhaka-Sylhet route enforced by the Sylhet Inter-district Bus Owners’ Association protesting killing of a bus driver left thousands of people in miseries. Although the association eased the programme from 4pm considering the hazards of commuters, it could not reduce people’s sufferings.
Running of all buses on the Sylhet-Dhaka route remained suspended almost till the evening cutting Sylhet region from the capital. Swapan Bhowmic went to Sylhet with his family a few days ago. He was supposed to leave Sylhet city yesterday morning. While waiting in the counter of Greenline Paribahan in the morning, he said: “As I am not getting any transport, I have to leave the city in the evening.” Like him, many people got stuck in the city and waited for transport for several hours. Several passengers said they did not know about the strike.
In the capital, no inter-district bus left from Gabtoli, Mohakhali or Sayedabad bus terminals for Sylhet. Transports workers were seen passing idle time. People who did not know about the strike came to bus stands. Many of them changed their travel schedule while many waited till the end of the strike.
Earlier on Tuesday afternoon, the Association announced the strike at a press conference in protest of the killing of ‘Shyamoli Paribahan’ driver Babul Debnath.
On Monday night, a number of passengers beat Babul, a resident of Jaflong area in Goaighat upazila, to death at Sayedabad bus terminal in the capital at as his vehicle arrived at the terminal beyond the schedule.
Spokesman of Sylhet distrcit police Sugayan Chakma told that the strike was being observed peacefully without any unpleasant incident.
Transport strike on the Dhaka-Sylhet route enforced by the Sylhet Inter-district Bus Owners’ Association protesting killing of a bus driver left thousands of people in miseries. Although the association eased the programme from 4pm considering the hazards of commuters, it could not reduce people’s sufferings.
Running of all buses on the Sylhet-Dhaka route remained suspended almost till the evening cutting Sylhet region from the capital. Swapan Bhowmic went to Sylhet with his family a few days ago. He was supposed to leave Sylhet city yesterday morning. While waiting in the counter of Greenline Paribahan in the morning, he said: “As I am not getting any transport, I have to leave the city in the evening.” Like him, many people got stuck in the city and waited for transport for several hours. Several passengers said they did not know about the strike.
In the capital, no inter-district bus left from Gabtoli, Mohakhali or Sayedabad bus terminals for Sylhet. Transports workers were seen passing idle time. People who did not know about the strike came to bus stands. Many of them changed their travel schedule while many waited till the end of the strike.
Earlier on Tuesday afternoon, the Association announced the strike at a press conference in protest of the killing of ‘Shyamoli Paribahan’ driver Babul Debnath.
On Monday night, a number of passengers beat Babul, a resident of Jaflong area in Goaighat upazila, to death at Sayedabad bus terminal in the capital at as his vehicle arrived at the terminal beyond the schedule.
Spokesman of Sylhet distrcit police Sugayan Chakma told that the strike was being observed peacefully without any unpleasant incident.
