The Hindu : Transporters threaten to stop trucks to Assam

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Thursday, Nov 27, 2003

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Transporters threaten to stop trucks to Assam

PATNA NOV. 26. Bihar transporters, who have stopped sending trucks to Assam in view of the ethnic violence, today threatened to stall movement of vehicles from other States to Assam and other north-eastern states through their State.

The Bihar Motor Transport Federation (BMTF) has written to the All India Goods Transport Association in Delhi requesting it to direct truckers from different States to stop sending vehicles to Assam till the situation became normal there, according to the BMTF president, Uday Shanker Prasad Singh.

He told PTI that letters had also been sent to State transport federations of West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and others States.

Mr. Singh said in an emergency meeting of BMTF here yesterday it was decided that if the transporters from other States did not stop plying vehicles to Assam heeding its request, the BMTF would start stalling the movement of trucks to that State through Bihar from next week.

He said vehicles from Bihar would keep off the roads to Assam till the Central government and the Assam government gave an assurance that transporters would not be targeted in that State.

On an average 4000 to 5000 trucks go to Assam from Bihar daily carrying food items, medicines and other goods.

Mr. Singh said BMTF was keeping a close watch on the situation in Assam and frequent meetings of office bearers were organised to take stock of the situation.

Irked over killing of four truck drivers at Nalbari, the BMTF had at its executive body meeting on November 22 had decided against sending trucks to Assam.--PTI

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