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Although owners and workers said the action was taken “out of fear of attack,” the BNP’s comment was that it was their “strategy to thwart the demonstration.”
Matiul Haque Tito, General Secretary of the Rajshahi Bus Owners Association, said: Because of this, the bus service has been stopped as of noon on Monday. No bus has come to Rajshahi since morning and no one leaves Rajshahi. “
Vehicles from 10 northern districts go to Rajshahi via Bogra. If any vehicle tries to cross Bogra, they will stop it, said Mubarak Hossain, head of the Shakpala bus chain in Bogra.
He said, “When the bus tried to go to Rajshahi, it stopped and a wrecker was brought in to pull it with a wrecker.”
However, Traffic Police Sergeant Mahbur Rahman, who is on duty in Shakpala, said they brought rakes as part of their regular job.
“I can’t say if the bus stop is open or not. That depends on the bus owners.”
Passengers from various destinations have suffered from bus closures.
Tofazzal, a passenger who arrived at the Shakpala bus stop, said: “The Rajshahi Board of Education has work to do. But when I get here, I hear that the bus is stopped. “
Mahatab Hossain, general secretary of the Rajshahi District Motor Workers Union, said one of his workers had been beaten in Bogra. A pre-announced program is underway to demand the arrest of the perpetrators.
Firoz Uddin Lebu, Highway Secretary at Bogra Motor Owners Group, said: “Who will take responsibility if someone wrecks a car during a rally? So the car has been stopped with verbal instructions. However, if someone goes, they can do so at their own risk. “
Rajshahi Metropolitan BNP Chairman Mosaddek Hossain Bulbul believes that stopping the bus is a “strategy to thwart the demonstration.”
He said: “To thwart the demonstration, the government has stopped bus services on all routes in Rajshahi with the help of owners and workers. This has been done before the assembly. This is because people should not be able to come to the departmental assembly ”.
The police allowed the BNP to hold the demonstration at the Rajshahi Community Center.
BNP announced the divisional general assembly program in six cities across the country at a press conference on February 5.
On the eve of the Khulna demonstration on Saturday, the district’s association of bus, minibus and coach owners announced a 24-hour closure on 16 roads in the Khulna district. Anwar Hossain Sonar, the association’s deputy secretary, said: “There may be chaos in the center of the BNP demonstration.”
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