Refrain from damaging vehicles
Transport owners urge BNP
A section of transport owners yesterday urged the main opposition BNP to refrain from vandalising and setting fire to vehicles during hartal hours.
They made the call while addressing a press conference at Dhaka Sarak Paribahan Samity (DSPS) office in the capital.
"We request the opposition party to refrain from such destructive activities in the name of observing democratic programme," said Khandaker Enayet Ullah, general secretary of DSPS.
He also warned of resisting such destructive activities, if the pro-hartal activists try to commit such incident again in future.
Transport owners incur losses around Tk 250 crores a day due to hartal, claimed Enayet, adding that at least 11 buses were torched and 20 buses were vandalised during the last three-day dawn-to-dusk hartal enforced by the party.
DSPS Executive President Abdul Baten Babu, Organising Secretary Abul Mansur Bulbul, Office Secretary Samdani Khandaker were, among others, present on the occasion
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