A community of battery-inch rickshaw drivers convened on the Nationwide Press Club in Dhaka this morning (23 November) in mumble in opposition to closing week’s High Courtroom give an explanation for that ordered authorities to eradicate these three-wheelers from the metropolis’s streets.
The Rickshaw, Battery-Powered Rickshaw-Van, and Easy Bike Sangram Parishad started a rally in entrance of the club at around 11am, presenting a seven-level charter of calls for aimed at resolving their challenges and securing their livelihoods.
Leaders and activists of the organisation are urging the executive to take immediate steps to meet their calls for, which are:
On the identical night, a Jahangirnagar University scholar, Afsana Karim, used to be killed in an accident involving a battery-inch rickshaw, which later sparked protests amongst students.
Since Wednesday (20 November) morning, sporadic protests had been brought out by battery-inch rickshaw drivers in parts of the metropolis.
On Thursday (21 November), the protests unfold to predominant roads of the metropolis, including Mohakhali, Mirpur and about a varied locations.
They additionally blocked the Mohakhali level crossing, suspending railway communication between Dhaka and quite a bit of the nation.
Bangladesh Military troopers and police personnel chased the protesters to switch them some distance from the railway tracks at around 12pm. A toddle-counter-toddle took characteristic on the time, constructing some stress, throughout which the protesters had been seen hurling brickbats on the law enforcers. They additionally vandalised some vehicles and nearby constructions and institutions on the time.
They later presented halting the protests till Saturday, but they additionally brought out sporadic protests the previous day (22 November).
