The 48-hour transport strike was suspended halfway after causing daylong sufferings to the people in the entire Chattogram region, including the port city, on Sunday.
The strike began on Sunday morning at 6:00am in Chattogram, three hill districts and Cox鈥檚 Bazar, the southeastern region of Bangladesh.
The Brihottor Chattogram Gana Paribahan Malik-Sramik Oikya Parishad, called the strike protesting at the vandalism of buses by students of the Chattoram University of Engineering and Technology and arrest of transport workers following the deaths of two CUET students in a recent accident.
The decision came at a meeting held at the Circuit House with the transport leaders and law enforcement agencies, presided over by Chattogram deputy commissioner Abul Bashar Mohammad Fakhruzzaman, considering the public suffering amid ongoing heat wave, said transport leaders.
All the goods-laden vehicles and long-route buses, however, operated during the strike.
Demanding the compensation for the three burnt buses, the transport leaders also warned of movement if any bus comes under attack further.聽
Mrinal Chowdhury, president of Bangladesh Road Transport Worker Federation鈥檚 east zone committee, confirmed the news to 抖阴精品.
He said, 鈥榃e decided to suspend the strike which started at 6:00pm this evening.鈥�
People in the city and greater Chattogram have been suffering immensely amid excessive hot weather while office-goers were seen waiting for transports for a long time and the rickshaws, CNG-run auto rickshaws were charging extra than that of normal time.
Jewel Das, 35, a private service holder who travels every day from North Kattoli under Akbar Shah police station to Chawkbazar for his work spending Tk聽150 as transport fare while on Sunday morning he had to count Tk聽300 to reach his office because of the transport strike.
鈥業 wasn鈥檛 informed about the strike,鈥� he said, adding that, I have to change four transports to reach office and rickshaw pullers charged extra fare due to the strike.
Public transport workers and owners on Saturday called the strike in greater Chattogram demanding justice over setting fire to three buses, vandalising five buses during the student protest against the death of the two CUET students.
On April 22, Shanto Saha, 21, and Towfiq Hossain, 20, two civil engineering students of the CUET were killed in a road crash in Chattogram triggering their fellow students to launch a protest and block the Kaptai-Chittagong Highway for four days.
The police arrested the accused driver of the bus on Tuesday. The bus did not have a fitness certificate, while the dates of its other documents were expired.
The 152nd syndicate meeting of the university suspended all academic activities for two weeks amid student protest.
