<i>No Durga Puja at Ratna Tea garden this year</i>
Laborers of Ratna Tea Garden in Goalbari in Juri upazila of Moulvibazar district have decided not to observed Durga Puja this year for to alleged poverty.
The decision was taken at a meeting of the tea garden 'Ponchayet' (association of labourers) yesterday.
Owners of the garden suspended all activities in the garden on December 21, 2004 due to an 'internal dispute', sources said.
Following agitation programmes by the labourers, the then deputy commissioner of Moulvibazar Md Younusur Rahman persuaded the owners to open it. The garden was reopened on June 27 last yerar. But after only seven days, the garden was closed again. Sources claimed that about 5,000 labourers staff are yet to get their arrears.
Management of the garden was not available as they had left the garden after its closure.
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