CHATTOGRAM, Jul 4: Transport operators have rejected a strike called for July 22 in Chattogram division.
Last week, Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation called the daylong strike to press home several demands.
Operators and workers' unions, including Chattogram Divisional Tank-Lorry Sramik Union, have called the strike a blueprint of Jamaat-e-Islami.
The stakeholders concerned on Wednesday said the strike was called without consulting the leaders of tank-lorry workers' union and other organisations.
They have thus violated the norms of calling a strike, the leaders of the union said.
They said oil tankers and lorries will carry fuels from Chattogram to other parts of the country on July 22 to keep the supply line undisturbed.
The decision was made at a meeting of the divisional tank-lorry workers' union at its office at Mouchak Square in the port city.
Union president Abdul Majid chaired the event.
Jatiya Sramik League Pahartoli Industrial Belt president Shafi Bangalee and Greater Chattogram Road Transport Sramik Oikya Parishad general secretary Ujjal Biswas also spoke at the meeting.
Union leaders Jashim Uddin Rana, Nurun Nabi, Harunor Rashid Babul, Sunil Devnath, Nur Mohammed, Faruk, Rashid, Jalal, Illyas, Ramzan and Mahbub Alam were present.
Chattogram Prime Mover Trailers Sramik Union in a statement also rejected the strike.
The leaders of the union sat in a meeting at Saltgola rail crossing office with its president Mohammad Moinuddin in the chair.
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