Gopalganj – The indefinite strike enforced by bus owners and workers in the district was withdrawn on Tuesday afternoon.
The decision to call off the strike came at a meeting among the district and police administration and bus owners and workers held at the deputy commissioner’s office.Deputy Commissioner M Mokhlesur Rahman Sarker, Police Super M Saidur Rahman Khan, Gopalganj Bus Owners’ Association President Prof Abul Hossain, its General Secretary Sheikh Mushfiqur Rahman Liton and Gopalganj Motor Workers’ Union President M Jasu Sheikh, among others, attended the meeting.
Earlier on Monday morning, the bus owners and workers enforced the indefinite strike in the district protesting the torching of a bus and demanding stopping the plying of illegal vehicles on Dhaka-Khulna highway.
Two people, including a student of Gopalganj Polytechnic Institute, were killed as a bus skidded off the road and fell into a ditch at Gopinathpur in Sadar upazila on Sunday morning.
Angered at their fellow’s death, students of the institute blocked the highway, vandalised several vehicles and torched the bus responsible for the accident.UNB
