Whose Eid is it, anyway?
Before the Eid-ul-Azha festival I tried to collect two bus tickets for Paikgacha, Khulna, to observe the holy religious festival with our relatives there. The fare was heavily enhanced, yet I could not collect it then. So, I had to go home to meet my old parents three days after the festival, providing the same exorbitant fare. I asked them the reason behind the high fare. On the plea of paucity of passengers they took away the extra amount of money from me. But I saw the bus full of passengers that day too. While I was coming back to Dhaka on 9 December i.e. 11 days after the Eid, the number of passengers was the same, but yet I had to pay the same cut-throat fare.
Does the government have any responsibility or plan in mind to stand beside the poor or middleclass hapless people of the country, if not always, at least on the occasion of any festival when there is compulsion to travel?
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