The 24-hour strike, enforced by Dhaka District CNG-run Auto-rickshaw Drivers Union, to press home its 7-point demand is underway in the capital on Sunday.
The union announced the strike from a meeting held at its Dhalpur office in the city with its president Md Rafique in the chair on Saturday morning, reports United News of Bangladesh. No auto-rickshaw was seen plying the roads of the capital after the strike started at 6:00am.
But the CNG-run auto-rickshaws for private use were running as usual.
The meeting decided to enforce the strike from 6am on Sunday to 6:00am on Monday to press home its 7-point demand, said general secretary of the organisation Md Kamal Ahmed.
He said the demands include immediate halt to random fine and jailing by the mobile courts over the last several months, release of the drivers who have already been sent to jail by mobile courts, as well as withdrawal of cases filed against them and immediate distribution of more 5,000 CNG-run auto-rickshaws among the drivers as part of improving quality passenger service.
Among others, senior vice-president Md Omar Faruque, joint secretary Md Shamim and organising secretary Nur Morsshed attended the meeting, Kamal Ahmed added.
Source: New Age
