Why no punishment for owners in new transport act?: Fakhrul

Secretary General of BNP Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said, we are saying that the proposed Road Transport Act is inconsistent. Why nothing is said about punishment for the transport owners there? Though the act is not passed. We hope, the government will include demands of the students in the act before passing it.

He said these after holding 20-party alliance meeting at the BNP Chairperson’s political office at Gulshan in the capital on Tuesday.

Mirza Fakhrul said, during quota reform movement Prime Minister told the parliament, there will be no quota. But later she moved away from her declaration showing court order as an excuse.

He said, in the proposed law demands of the students were not reflected. Government also cheated with this movement like the quota reform movement. The demand of the students was capital punishment for the drivers if they kill people by reckless driving. But the highest punishment is kept only five years imprisonment in the new law.

BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan said, 20-party alliance have full support on the movement of students for their demand of safe roads. The alliance hoped that government would implement the 9-point demands of the students. But the government not doing that conducted repression on the protesting students by police and terrorists of the ruling party.

Nazrul Islam Khan said, we strongly condemn the attack on students. The leaders of 20-party alliance also condemn the attack on journalists and demand unconditional release of the arrested people throughout the country including photographer Shahidul Alam.

The 20-party alliance leaders in the meeting also condemned and protested the incident of filing case of harassment against BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury and senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.

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