The Bus Owners' and Workers' Unity Council has declared that they will enforce a transport strike on 41 routes of the North Western region of the country inorder to release the killer driver Jamir Hossain, who is alleged for murdering Tareque Masud and Mishuk Munier. Khulna Transport Workers Unity Council general secretary Sahadat Hossain Mridha told on Thursday, "Although bus movement has been suspended on 18 routes of Khulna, we will sit with the Jessore workers union at noon to take the final decision."
Besides this, the strike is continuing on the 21 routes of the Jessore district, he added. Earlier on Wednesday, the association called an indefinite bus strike in 21 southwestern districts, demanding release of the driver who was allegedly responsible for the deaths of filmmaker Tareque masud and television personality Mishuk Munier.
On the same evening, transport workers federation chief Shahjahan Khan said that the indefinite bus strike was withdrawn within six hours of its start as the government had given its assurance that it would accept all the demands. Transport workers federation secretary general Khandakar Enayat Ullah also supported Khan's speech. However, Bus Owners' and Workers' Unity Council convener S M Sah Alam refuted the announcement on withdrawal of the strike.
On Aug 30, a head-on collision between a microbus, carrying Tareque and Mishuk, and a bus of Deluxe Paribahan from Chuadanga killed five people. Tareque and Mishuk were among the dead. Later, Police arrested bus driver Jamir Hossain from Chuadanga who is now in Manikganj jail.
