BRTA not aware of transport strikes in Khulna, Mymensingh

Staff Reporter :
Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA), the transport regulatory body of the government did not know anything about the strike of public transport before the BNP’s divisional rally in Khulna and Mymensingh.
“We are not aware of the development. Even the transport owners and workers did not inform us before calling strikes. When something like this comes to our attention, we take action,” BRTA chairman Nur Mohammad Mazumder said this on Friday while replying to a question at a press conference organised by the regulatory body on the occasion of the National Road Safety Day to be observed on Saturday.
Journalists wanted to know from the BRTA
Chairman if some political parties held rallies, the bus owners stopped their transport services showing lame excuse, which does nothing but creates public suffering and host them.
Whether BRTA is implementing the decision of any political party, Nur Mohammad Mazumder replied, “No one has brought any such complaint to us, nor owners and workers call strike telling us.”
It is alleged that all types of vehicular movement have been suspended for two days so that the leaders and activists of BNP could not join the Khulna rally to be held on Saturday.
Referring to the ongoing strike in Khulna and the recent one in Mymensingh, the BRTA chairman further said, “Officially we do not know anything about this as no one has placed any claim or complaint to us in this regard.”
BNP is set to hold its third divisional rally in Khulna on Saturday as part of its movement against the price hike of daily essentials, energy crisis and the killing of the party activists.
Meanwhile, Khulna transport owners have stopped inter-district bus movement since yesterday morning.
Earlier, the same situation happened centering the divisional rally of BNP in Mymensingh on 15 October.