Road Transport Act
Paying heed to old transport syndicate’s unjust demands would be inappropriate
The cradle of the July uprising was the 2018 road safety movement. This movement began across the capital when two school students were killed after being run over by a bus. At that time, two buses of the Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan (currently Poristhan Paribahan) were in a deadly race, and while competing, one bus mounted the pavement in the Staff Road area of Airport Road, killing two students and injuring several others. After this tragic accident, in reply to a query of a journalist, Shahjahan Khan, the then Shipping Minister and a key figure in the transport sector, said with a smile, “An accident is an accident.” It was because of Minister Shahjahan Khan’s indifference towards the students’ deaths in the accident that the students became enraged. The movement spread to almost every educational institution in the capital.