Thakurgaon bus strike called off
Transport workers on Monday evening called off their indefinite strike on internal routes in the district after the administration and police 'regretted' for Sunday's incident.
Transport workers on Sunday began an indefinite bus strike on Thakurgaon-Ranishankoil, Thakurgaon-Baliadangi and Thakurgaon-Ruhia roads protesting assault on a bus driver by police on Thakurgaon-Pirganj road at Matherganj under Sadar upazila earlier on the day.
Police said deputy commissioner (DC) Mohammad Shahiduzzaman and police superintendent (SP) Md Shah Alam were going to Mohammadpur union in Sadar upazila to see the union parishad election in the morning.
When the DC's car reached Motherganj on Thakurgaon-Pirganj road at around 10:45am, it narrowly escaped head-on collision with a passenger bus coming from Pirganj.
Law enforcers, who were going to the union along with the DC and SP, stopped the bus and beat up its driver Ramzan Ali triggering an indefinite transport strike in the district.
The next day, agitating transport workers and police locked in an hour-long clash at Thakurgaon old bus stand.
To settle the matter, a meeting was held yesterday at the conference room of Thakurgaon Circuit House while deputy commissioner Muhammad Shahiduzzaman in the chair.
At the meeting, the DC and superintendent of police Md Shah Alam regretted for Sunday's assault on the bus driver by police.
Among others, mayor of Thakurgaon municipality SMA Moin, acting president of district unit Awami League Advocate Mokbul Hossain Babu, president of Thakurgaon Transport Owners' Association Ram Babu, general secretary of Transport Workers' Union Abdul Jabbar, were present.
Later the DC and the SP visited assaulted driver Ramjan Ali at Thakurgaon Sadar Hospital.
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