Quader warns of stern action if extra fares are taken

Live Correspondent: Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today warned that the government would take stern action if the transport owners and workers realise extra fares from passengers.

“If addition fares are realised 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.

He said the undemocratic and autocratic governments had introduced criminalisation in the country’s politics and stigmatised the politics, and the BNP cannot avoid its responsibility to this end.

Dhaka, 8 November (campuslive24.com)//BSC

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