Ministers directed them to halt buses: BNP

Prime opposition BNP has alleged that transport owners and workers have stopped services under directives of ministers of the government.

“The public transport services have been stopped at the directives of ministers to ignore the student’s justified demands,” Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, senior joint secretary general of the party, told journalists at a press briefing at the party’s Nayapaltan headquarters.

He also said: “Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said the transport owners are not operating bus services on security grounds, but the students were not seen obstructing vehicles anywhere during their agitation”.

“We have seen the driver of a minster has no driving licence, MPs’ and law enforcers’ vehicles have no valid papers, and their drivers have no driving licences. It is shameful for the nation,” Rizvi alleged.

Pointing to the Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan’s remark that there might be “acts of sabotage” anytime in the ongoing student movement, Rizvi said it is an indication of subversive acts to be carried out “by the government as it did so” in the past.