Sramik League men in Sylhet occupy Zila Parishad land
District Truck Sramik League men occupied a plot of commercial land, worth around one crore taka, in the city's Mehdibagh area on Sunday.
They hung a signboard there yesterday and police failed to force them out.
Contacted, chief executive officer of Zila Parishad Harun Ur-Rashid Molla told this correspondent that legal measures will be taken against the occupants of the government plot soon.
Locals said the truck workers set up a tin shed structure on a portion of the Zila Parishad land, adjacent to the Sylhet Law College near Hazrat Shahjalal Bridge on Sunday.
On information, the Zila Parishad men rushed to the site and asked the truckers not to erect any structure on the said land. But the workers claimed they had permission from the city mayor.
The officials then asked them to appear at the Zila Paishad office along with papers, but they failed to turn up with those till yesterday afternoon.
Molla said although the Truck Sramik League men first claimed that the mayor had permitted them to use the plot, they came to the office yesterday only to say that the mayor had permitted them 'verbally'.
A police team was sent to the site at about 4:00 pm yesterday, but they had to return in the face of protests by the arrogant Truck Sramik League men, the official said.
"We shall go for the legal steps. The land must be recovered at any cost", the official said.
Contacted, District Truck Sramik League president Abu Sarker said that they will use the land temporarily. "The mayor and other leaders gave us the permission to use the land which had been lying vacant for long. We would leave the place soon after the truck terminal is established", he said.
However, SCC Mayor Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran yesterday refuted Abu Sarker's claim.
The land belongs to the Zila Parishad and they are the authority to see the matter. SCC has nothing to do in this regard, he said.
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