Bangladesh Sarak Paribahan Malik Samity (BSPMS) on Monday urged transport owners and workers to keep movement of goods-laden and passenger vehicles normal ahead of the BNP’s three-day countrywide blockade to be enforced from Tuesday.

The BSPMS made the call from an emergency meeting held at the central office of the organization in Dhaka on Monday noon, according to a media release signed by BSPMS’s Secretary General Khandakar Enayet Ullah.

The decision to operate vehicles defying the blockade was taken unanimously from the meeting.

Thirteen vehicles have so far been burnt and more than 100 vehicles vandalized. A staff of Achhim Paribahan named Nayem was burnt to death, it reads.  

Condemning such destructive incidents, the organization urged the authorities concerned to bring the terrorists involved with the incidents under trial and said vandalizing and torching vehicles can’t be tolerated anyhow.  

The authorities concerned including police administration were requested to beef up security measures in vulnerable spots in Dhaka and elsewhere of the country so that traffic can't be barred.

Chaired by Bangladesh Sarak Paribahan Sramik Federation President Shahjahan Khan MP, BSPMS President Mashiur Rahman Ranga, Secretary General Khandakar Enayet Ullah, Bangladesh Sarak Paribahan Sramik Federation General Secretary Osman Ali, Bangladesh Bus-Truck Owners’ Association General Secretary Abu Raihan, Dhaka District Transport Workers’ Union President Abbas Uddin and representatives from Bangladesh Sarak Paribahan Sramik Smaiy and Dhaka Sarak Paribahan Malik Samity were present in the meeting.