CHATTOGRAM, April 27, 2024 (BSS) - The 'Greater Chattogram Public Transport Owners and Oikya Parishad (GCPTOP) called a 48-hour strike in five districts on four-point demand, including protesting the burning of vehicles at the Chattogram University of Engineering and Technology (CUET).

The decision was made at a meeting of the Public Transport Owners-Workers Oikya Parisad on Saturday amid the ongoing student protests over the deaths of two CUET students in an accident, said Md Musa, member secretary of the organization.
 
The strike will be enforced from 6 am on Sunday in the Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, Bandarban, Rangamati and Khagrachhari districts, he added.

"We want safety of our assets and transport workers," Musa told the meeting.
 
Musa said all sorts of public transports including buses, minibuses, coaches, tempos and auto rickshaws will not run on the streets as part of the four-point demand.

"We were forced to declare the programme as the administration and the concerned law enforcers failed to meet our demands in different times," he added.

Two CUET students died in a road accident between a bus and a motorcycle near Selina Quader Chowdhury College on Apr 22.

Aggrieved by the deaths, students began holding a protest at the CUET gate on Monday. They set a Shah Amanat Paribahan Group bus on fire that night and vandalized another of their buses.

CUET closed sine die following the death of its two students on Friday.