Traders hold human chain to abolish SCCI committee

Sylhet Bureau :

Businessmen at all levels of Sylhet have given a 4-day ultimatum to abolish the unelected and illegal management committee of The Sylhet Chamber of Commerce and Industries for the year 2024-25 and hand over power to the elected committee.
They called upon the demands of the Apamar businessmen of Sylhet to be implemented by immediately resigning the incumbents and appointing administrators in the Sylhet Chamber by organizing a legitimate and fair election in the democratic process. Otherwise, all levels of traders in Sylhet have warned to announce a strict programme next Thursday.
On Sunday (December 8) at noon, the business leaders expressed these reactions in the human chain program organized by the businessmen of all levels of the city on the road adjacent to the Sylhet Chamber on Jail Road in Sylhet city. In the human chain programme, chaired by Amiruzzaman Chowdhury Dulu, the former director of Sylhet Chamber, and Abdur Rahman Ripon, Secretary General of Sylhet District Branch of Bangladesh Shop Owners Association and President of Sylhet Metropolitan Business Union Kalyan Parishad, the speakers said, The Sylhet Chamber of Commerce and Industries is a hope of the businessmen of the region.
A symbol of aspiration and guardian organization. They considered this traditional organization of common traders of Sylhet as a focal point of their trust. But it is a sad fact that a group is illegally and undemocratically usurping the power of the Sylhet Chamber and undermining the dignity of this institution. Repeatedly on the streets, the businessmen of all levels of Sylhet demanded the resignation of those holding power illegally, but they shamelessly seized power and indulged in the game of hide and seek. Speakers recalled the August 5 student-crowd movement and said the illegal members of the chamber were blinded by the lust for power. Shamelessly they are debating the chamber. They saw the rise not the fall. They said that where the chamber is supposed to be with the common traders in happiness and sorrow, instead they are busy picking the sugarcane of the needy instead of working for the welfare of the traders.