The shuttle train service between the Chittagong University (CU) campus and the city which had remained suspended for eight days because of an indefinite strike enforced by the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), resumed yesterday night.
The decision came from a tripartite meeting held among the university authorities, railway officials, staff and the demonstrating BCL men at the general manager’s office of the Central Railway Building (CRB) in the city in the afternoon.
Mohammed Ali, general secretary of the Railway Running Staff, said they had agreed to operate the shuttle train service again on the campus route after getting assurances from the university authorities that it was safe to do so.
The shuttle train service will be normal from today [Thursday], he added.
Earlier, on May 7, a section of the BCL unit of the CU enforced a blockade on the campus to press home its eight-point demands, thereby halting the train service.
The BCL men forced a suspension of the train service between the campus and the city by abducting and injuring the train drivers and cops.
Following the attacks, the railway authority decided to suspend the train service to ensure the security of their staff.
In a separate incident on April 5, a faction of the BCL had physically assaulted Nasir Haider Babul, assistant secretary of the AL central sub-committee, on campus when he went there to attend a meeting.
Protesting the attack, another faction of the BCL had enforced a blockade for an indefinite period of time, which they finally withdrew on April 13, after putting forward an eight-point demand, including the permanent expulsion of the attackers from the university.
