BRTC service finally resumes in 3 Sylhet UZs

Following this, the 17 Parganas Shalish Samannaya Committee, a non-partisan people's forum, withdrew its yesterday's hartal in the three upazilas, called earlier.

Ruling party lawmaker from Sylhet-4 Dilder Hossain Selim took the four buses to Jaintpur Saturday night. Earlier in the evening, he received the buses from the Deputy Commissioner of Sylhet.

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Soon after arrival of the buses, a rally was held at the Bat Tola at Jaitapur upazila headquarters under the auspices of the Samannaya Committee.

Addressing the rally, Dilder Selim thanked Finance Minister M Saifur Rahman and Communication Minister Nazmul Huda for meeting people's sentiment in the three upazilas.

He also thanked the people of the region for continuing the movement amid sufferings for resumption of BRTC service.

President of the Samannaya Committee, Siraj Uddin Ahmed, who chaired the meeting termed resumption of BRTC service a victory of the people.

It was addressed by, among others, district BNP Vice-President Nurul Haque, Jaintapur Upazila Awami League President and former Upazila Chairman Md. Abdullah, Abdul Quadir Khan and Abdul Haque, Upazila BNP General Secretary and former UP chairman Abdul Malik Manik, Nijpat UP Chairman Mokhlisur Rahman Doula, UP chairman ABM Zakaria, Darbast UP Chairman Kamal Ahmed, UP chairman Golam Kibria Helal, ex-UP chairman and upazila Jatiya Party Convener Muhibul Haque Muhib, ex-UP chairman Musa Miah, Moulana Hossain Ahmed Chotuli, Upazila Chhatra League President Hanif Mohammad, ex upazila JCD president Abul Kalam Azad, Prof. Fayez Ahmed Babar, Anwarul Haque, Siraj Uddin, Baharul Alam and Mashuk Ahmed.

The speakers called upon the people to continue their boycott of private transports, saying that the BRTC service was suspended following a conspiracy by their owners.

Mentionably, the transport owners and workers associations strongly protested BRTC service in the upazials, which was started on September 10 last year.

Amid the continued agitation since then, the Samannya Committee suspended supply of sand, stone and coal from the 3 upazilas to other parts of the country on January 9.

The people, led by the Committee, also laid a siege to the Jaintapur, Kanaighat and Gowainghat headquarters on 17 January.