Transport owners and workers in Sylhet have announced strike for an indefinite period from today, protesting at a reported attack on them by Sylhet unit activists of Juba League, ruling Awami League-backed youth organisation.
The District Road Transport Workers Union president, Selim Ahmad Falik, told New Age that leaders of Paribahan Malik and Shramik Oikya Parishad took the decision on Tuesday evening.
He alleged that a group of JL activists, led by the Sylhet JL general secretary Mahsin Kamran, attacked Hotel Tajmahal at Central Bus Terminal in the city’s Dakkhin Surma area in the afternoon, to take possession of the hotel.
A number of transport workers were injured in the incident, he said.
On the others hand, Mahsin Kamran denying the allegations against him, claimed that transport workers made the attack on after when they went to the hotel.
He also claimed that the hotel building was their family property and they went there to seal off the hotel as the hotel owner did not pay the rent for several months.
‘Transport workers union leaders are behind the incident,’ Mahsin alleged.
However, local people said that there was a longstanding conflict between Juba League leaders and transport workers union leaders over establishing dominance in the Central Bus Terminal area.
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