Transport workers who have paralysed the country with strike are now resorting to a humiliating tactic to harass other people driving on the roads. On Monday, many pro strike activists on the road reportedly stopped vehicles, forcing drivers to do sit ups holding their ears.
On the first day of the strike, on Sunday, the pro strike workers smeared burnt engine oil on other drivers, vehicles and passengers.
However, leaders of the strike movement refuted their involvement in such abominable tactics, saying that some miscreants are behind this with the intention of diverting the campaign from its original purpose.
General-secretary of the Bangladesh Road Transport Labour Federation, Osman Ali, told Bangla Tribune: “we have told the police to take firm steps against those who are behind such nasty actions.”
We expelled two persons who were involved in the mobil smearing act, he added.
“Those who called a strike of goods vehicles earlier are conspiring against us.”