Desk Report
Publish: 08 Nov 2021, 07:47 pm
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader || Photo: Collected
Road
Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today warned that the government
would take stern action if the transport owners and workers realize extra fares
from passengers, reports BSS.
"If
additional fares are realized from passengers breaking the pledge (of transport
owners), the government will take stern action against them," he told a
press conference at his official residence here.
Quader,
also the Awami League (AL) general secretary, said the re-fixed transport fares
will not be applicable to the gas-, octane- and patrol-run vehicles.
About
the strike of truck and covered-van owners-workers, he said the home minister
has taken an initiative to sit in a meeting with the leaders of the concerned
associations to resolve this crisis.
Responding
to the statements of BNP leaders, the AL general secretary said there is no terrible
situation in the country.
Noting
that the government's stance is very harsh, in general, against those who are
looting public assets, he said the BNP has taken the side of the looters by
making statements.
Considering
the public interest, Quader said, the government has taken firm stance against
the communal forces, corrupt people and those involved in irregularities.
He
said the undemocratic and autocratic governments had introduced criminalisation
in the country's politics and stigmatized the politics, and the BNP cannot
avoid its responsibility to this end.
The
AL general secretary said this is time to expose the faces of those who ran
such a state that went against the spirit of the Liberation War, by killing the
great leader of the war and later the freedom fighter army officers in the name
of 'Sipahi-Janata Biplob'.
He
said the BNP wants to hide the truth but it must be revealed.
The
conspiratorial incidents taking place from 3 to 7 November in 1975 were not exposed
before public, Quader said, demanding the unmasking of those involved in these
incidents by forming an inquiry commission.
Replying
to the allegation of BNP that its leaders and workers are being harassed, he
said those carried out attacks on puja mandaps and were trying to destroy
communal harmony in the country are patriotic ones in the words of BNP.
The
AL general secretary said by examining video footages, the law enforcing
agencies are taking actions against the people who conducted attacks on puja
mandaps.
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