Editorial Desk :
A case has been filed against three people, including a bus driver and its owner, in connection with the death of a baby girl in an accident in Kushtia district town. Harunur Rashid, father of the deceased, filed the case against bus driver Khokon, its owner Joynul and supervisor Yunus with Kushtia Model Police Station on Thursday night.
On Thursday, Akifa, a one-year-old daughter of Harunur Rashid, who sustained injuries after she fell from her mother Rina Akter’s lap when a bus of ‘Ganj-e-raj Paribahan’ hit the mother in the town on Tuesday, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).
What is most astonishing as the video footage shows is the utterly callous and reckless disregard of the driver for the baby and her mother as he ran the bus on her. It was almost the driver did not recognise them as human beings. A CCTV footage shows that the bus was standing when Rina with her child started crossing the road.
As she came in front of the bus, it started moving without a warning and hit her. On impact, the baby fell on the side of the road. The bus pushed Rina a couple of feet before speeding away, as seen in the clip. This reminds the nation yet again of the reckless disregard drivers of heavy vehicles like buses have for human lives. It was almost as if the nation recently did not undergo one of the largest non violent movements in our history advocating for safer transports.
Meanwhile no words of condemnation have come from either our Roads Minister Obaidul Quader, who seems to be busy warning others to make sure the election victory for the government.
He has taken his position as Secretary General of
Awami League too seriously as General Secretary for the Awami League and has time to see his ministry is run properly. The shipping minister Shajahan Khan as leader of the road transport workers union is the protector of irresponsible bus drivers. Thus there is nobody in name even to protect the victims of reckless bus and truck drivers. They enjoy immunity to reckless driving and against killings. None of the ministers felt sorry for the brutal killing of the baby in Kushtia. The police will be solving all problems. The ministers are Prime Minister’s ministers and they do not seek people’s vote to be elected.
At least there should be a minister in charge of the roads and highways, though incompetent so that people will know there is somebody to provide safety on roads.
There is no need for serving the people because anybody can be a minister or member of the parliament without the people’s vote. But there should be some conscience somewhere for the fact they are using public money honestly or dishonestly.
A case has been filed against three people, including a bus driver and its owner, in connection with the death of a baby girl in an accident in Kushtia district town. Harunur Rashid, father of the deceased, filed the case against bus driver Khokon, its owner Joynul and supervisor Yunus with Kushtia Model Police Station on Thursday night.
On Thursday, Akifa, a one-year-old daughter of Harunur Rashid, who sustained injuries after she fell from her mother Rina Akter’s lap when a bus of ‘Ganj-e-raj Paribahan’ hit the mother in the town on Tuesday, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).
What is most astonishing as the video footage shows is the utterly callous and reckless disregard of the driver for the baby and her mother as he ran the bus on her. It was almost the driver did not recognise them as human beings. A CCTV footage shows that the bus was standing when Rina with her child started crossing the road.
As she came in front of the bus, it started moving without a warning and hit her. On impact, the baby fell on the side of the road. The bus pushed Rina a couple of feet before speeding away, as seen in the clip. This reminds the nation yet again of the reckless disregard drivers of heavy vehicles like buses have for human lives. It was almost as if the nation recently did not undergo one of the largest non violent movements in our history advocating for safer transports.
Meanwhile no words of condemnation have come from either our Roads Minister Obaidul Quader, who seems to be busy warning others to make sure the election victory for the government.
He has taken his position as Secretary General of
Awami League too seriously as General Secretary for the Awami League and has time to see his ministry is run properly. The shipping minister Shajahan Khan as leader of the road transport workers union is the protector of irresponsible bus drivers. Thus there is nobody in name even to protect the victims of reckless bus and truck drivers. They enjoy immunity to reckless driving and against killings. None of the ministers felt sorry for the brutal killing of the baby in Kushtia. The police will be solving all problems. The ministers are Prime Minister’s ministers and they do not seek people’s vote to be elected.
At least there should be a minister in charge of the roads and highways, though incompetent so that people will know there is somebody to provide safety on roads.
There is no need for serving the people because anybody can be a minister or member of the parliament without the people’s vote. But there should be some conscience somewhere for the fact they are using public money honestly or dishonestly.
