Transportation strike withdrawn after Shajahan’s call

Transport workers have withdrawn their countrywide strike after Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan’s call for end.

The minister, also the executive president of apex union Bangladesh Transport Workers Federation, urged the workers to go back to work citing assurances from the government.

“I am urging the owners and workers to end the strike,” he said at a press briefing on Wednesday after a meeting with representatives of several unions of transport owners and workers.

The workers under the banner of Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation went on strike on Tuesday morning protesting the life term imprisonment for a truck driver convicting him of killing filmmaker Tareque Masud and journalist Mishuk Munier in a road accident.

Meanwhile, a Dhaka court on Monday sentenced a trucker to death in a case filed over a road accident in Savar in 2003.