Death incidence following pushing off a passenger from running bus is pathetic

A 35-year-old man died after being allegedly pushed off a moving bus by the helper during an altercation over fares in the capital’s Jatrabari area on Saturday evening. The deceased Abu Sayem Murad worked for a buying house in Dhaka. An argument broke out between Sayem and the helper of the bus over the fare. In a fit of rage, the accused helper pushed Sayem off the moving bus that soon ran over him, leaving him dead on the spot. Enraged by the incident, locals set the bus on fire and beat up the bus driver and helper, and handed them over to the police.
The incident is pathetic since BRTA failed to enforce fair fares in public transport. Fixed-income people are in a tight grip to get some respite amid the skyrocketing food and other inflation. The government on 6 August hiked fuel prices by up to 51.7 per cent, the highest in the country’s history, adding to the plight of common people already struggling to cope with the rising cost of living. The highest-ever fuel price hike in Bangladesh’s history has left passengers and coach operators equally frustrated as the former group is forced to pay higher fares, while transport owners scaled down services to save cost.
The people of the country are already struggling to make ends meet due to ongoing inflationary pressure; by raising fuel prices by such a large margin, the government is pushing them into an even worse situation. They are now struggling to survive with reckless price hikes of all commodities – imported and locally produced. The soaring prices of daily essentials such as vegetables, rice, flour, and edible oil are unbearable for low and fixed-income households. But the prices of several essential items have increased by even 50 per cent during the last year, as per the price records of the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh.
BRTA is the authority to impose fare prices, while the government, by failing to control inflation, makes the lower to higher-middle-income people in a tight situation. We demand justice for Murad and ask the government to ease people’s burden by lowering corruption, fund embezzlement, etc.