Cancel new bus fare
Demands Citizens Rights Movement
Citizens Rights Movement forms a human chain in front of Jatiya Press Club in the city yesterday demanding cancellation of the new bus fare rates.Photo: STAR
Citizens Rights Movement yesterday demanded of the government to reinstate previous bus fare by canceling the new rates. Speaking at a rally in front of Jatiya Press Club in the city, members of the movement also demanded to stop the use of compressed natural gas in privately owned cars. Though fuel prices were increased nine times and reduced twice in the last decade, bus fares were increased many times but did not decrease for once, said Tushar Rehman, the movement's secretary general. The rise of bus fares in the excuse of rising fuel costs is not acceptable as the previous bus fare rates could bear the new fuel prices. New bus fares were being imposed on passengers since May 13 though it was supposed to come into effect from May 19, he added. The movement's leaders also demanded to set up visible markings for kilometres on every road centring Zero Point and providing sufficient number of public buses. Water expert Dr Muhammad Isamul Hoque, Ruhin Hossain Prince of Communist Party of Bangladesh and Aminur Rasul Babul of Unnayan Dhara Trust also addressed the rally.
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