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Road Transport Workers Fed on verge of split

By Staff Correspondent
The Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation is on the verge of a split.
Two rival group* in the federation have called separate meetings In the first week of next month, a reliable federation source said Tuesday.
One group led by executive president Manjurul Ahsan Khan has convened a "special conference" of the federation October 3 at the Engineers' Institution while Ihe other group led by general secretary Abdur Rashid holds an executive committee meeting at the JSD (Inu) office on the same day, the source added.
The present situation comes in the aftermath of the transport strike called last June by one group but opposed by the other.
The Khan group held a requisition meeting Tuesday at the Shahjahanpur Railway Community Centre with one-third of the 201-member executive committee and suspended Rashid temporarily for 'tarnishing the image of the federation."
He was also asked lo show cause why he would not be expelled from the federation.
Rashid was unavailable for comment.
The Khan group has consolidated its position in the fed-
eration and shifted the office unilaterally from Nayabazar to Toynbee Circular Road.
The former office was however occupied by the rival group, the source added.
Khan was reportedly to start a nationwide tour from Thursday to garner support from more than 150 unions, members of the federation.
The executive committee members of the unions and the federation executives will be the voters during the conference.
None of the executives of the rival groups was available for comment on Tuesday night but a source belonging to the Khan group told The Daily Star that Rashid may form separate committee with Bclayct Hossain, once expelled from the Bangladesh Biplobl Sarak Paribahan Federation.
The Biplobl Federation later merged with the Bangladesh Road Transport Worker* Federation.
Another source said that a new federation may be formed during the conference with the Truck Workers Unions, in the country.
The truck unions, now part of the federation, feel that their Interests arc not protected by the Federation as it is dominated by bus worker*.