<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Drivers of battery-run three wheelers staged demonstration blocking roads in Dhaka’s Rampura and Demra Staff Quarter areas for the second consecutive day on Sunday, demanding withdrawal of a ban on the movement of the vehicle in the capital.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Vehicular movement remained suspended for around one hour in the areas, causing immense suffering to commuters.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ariful Islam, assistant commissioner (traffic-north) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), said three-wheeler drivers took to the Rampur road and started chanting slogans against the government decision around 10:30am.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Paltan and Sayedabad-bound buses from Rampur remained could not move due to the demonstrations, he said, adding that later the protesters headed towards Malibagh’s Abul Hotel.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Vehicular movement returned to normal around 11:30pm, he added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He informed that hundreds of vehicles got stuck on Khilgaon and Malibagh flyovers due to the demonstration.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Moreover, three-wheeler drivers took to Hajjinagar Road in the Demra Staff Quarter area and blocked it by putting barricades around 10am.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The drivers also tried to vandalise vehicles but failed, said Mostain Billah Ferdous, assistant commissioner of Demra Traffic under the DMP.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On Sunday, several hundred three-wheeler drivers gathered in the Mirpur-10 intersection to press home their demand.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">They staged demonstration in Mirpur, Pallabi, Agargaon, Taltola, Kalshi and Mirpur-13 areas, reports UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On the other hand, on Wednesday, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader instructed the authorities concerned to take steps to stop the movement of battery-run three wheelers on the roads in Dhaka city.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd/fas</div>