An influential minister instigates transport strike : Fakhrul

Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday alleged that an influential minister instigated the countrywide wildcat road transport strike that begun on Tuesday.
Without naming, he ostensibly indicated the shipping minister, saying he had sponsored the strike and created an anarchic situation to achieve ‘self-interest’, pushing people into sufferings.
The BNP secretary general was addressing a discussion organised by BNP at the auditorium of National Press Club in memory of the army officers who were killed in Peelkhana carnage on February 25-26 in 2009.
Fakhrul said people including women immensely suffered for lack of public transports and had to go to their workplaces and destinations on foot due to the strike.
He said police and transport workers were locked in clashes at Gabtoli in the capital on Tuesday night while a transport worker was killed in police firing on Wednesday.
He said the government had failed to tackle the situation. 
Dwelling on Paalkhana tragedy, Fakhrul said the killings at the BDR headquarters was an orchestrated conspiracy to break the national defense system.
He said repeated attacks had come on the country’s independence and sovereignty and the army had repeatedly protected the nation against those. 
He said the real offenders of Peelkhana carnage would be brought to trial in future through proper investigation. 
Fakhrul said the government increased the price of gas in a bid to import LNG and to sell it through the ruling party men. 
Presiding over the discussion, BNP standing committee member Mahbubur Rahman demanded a judicial inquiry into the Peelkhana carnage to unearth the masterminds and financers behind the massacre.
Mahbub, also a former army chief, said the BDR mutiny did not happen merely on the then issue of ‘dhal-bhat project’ but there was a deep conspiracy behind the carnage.
Another standing committee member Goyeshwar Chandra Roy said the mystery of BDR headquarters killing would be unfolded if an elected government assumes power.
BNP vice-chairman Ruhul Alam Chowdhury, senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and publicity secretary Shahiduddin Chowdhury Anne, among others, addressed the discussion.

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