‘Conflict weapon’ against forcible toll fee collection, warns SATAC
NHAI decides for compulsory collection of toll fee from July 16
Mangaluru: "Local vehicles will not pay the toll fee at Surathkal tollgate. If the authorities try to collect toll fee keeping police force, the Committee will take it head on to close it. The Committee will not mind to take a conflict mode if needed," Surathkal Anti Tollgate Action Committee warned.
In an emergency meeting of the Committee chaired by its convener Muneer Katipalla on Saturday, this decision has been taken.
Instead of closing the Surathkal tollgate, the National Highway Authority of India has decided to collect toll fee from local private vehicles in police security from July 16. So, the Committee has decided to oppose this decision.
Problems of potholes, service road, dilapidated condition of Kulur bridge were also discussed in the meeting. The meeting also expressed its displeasure over MP Nalin Kumar Kateel who failed to handle the issue wisely.
Former MLA Vijay Kumar Shetty, Raghvendra Rao of Jaya Karnataka organisation, DYFI district president BK Imtiyaz and others were present at the meeting.
Resolutions
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Order seeking police security for collecting toll fee from local vehicles should be withdrawn
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Tollgate contactor should be directed not to collect toll fee from locals.
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Memorandum to be given to the DC to take decision on merger of Surathkal temporary tollgate with Hejamadi Tollgate.
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Protest against collecting toll fee.
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If the authorities tried to collect toll fee forcibly, holding protest along with like minded organisations to close the Tollgate.
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After Hadi, another Bangladesh student leader shot in head
Dhaka (PTI): Unidentified gunmen on Monday shot in the head Motaleb Shikder, a second leader of Bangladesh’s violent student-led 2024 uprising.
The attack took place in southwestern Khulna city, days after the killing of prominent youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi.
"The Khulna Division head of NCP (National Citizen Party) and central coordinator of the party’s workers front, Motaleb Shikder, was shot a few minutes ago," NCP’s joint principal coordinator Mahmuda Mitu said in a Facebook post.
Mitu, a doctor, said Shikder was rushed to Khulna Medical College Hospital in a critical condition.
The Kaler Kantha newspaper, quoting hospital sources, said Shikder was shot on the left side of his head, and he was bleeding profusely when he was brought to the facility, where the doctors started emergency treatment.
The attack came days after Hadi, a prominent leader of the student-led protests last year that led to the ouster of the prime minister Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government, was shot in the head on December 12 by masked gunmen at an election campaign in central Dhaka’s Bijoynagar area.
The 32-year-old Inqilab Mancha spokesperson died while undergoing treatment in Singapore on Thursday. Hadi was a candidate for the scheduled February 12 general elections.
The interim government of Muhammad Yunus staged a nationwide mourning for Hadi’s death on Saturday and said no stone would be left unturned to track down his killers as violence erupted in Dhaka and other major cities afresh over the attack and subsequent death.
Faisal Karim Masud's parents, wife and a female friend of the prime suspect have been arrested by police, but said they were unsure about his current whereabouts.
After Monday’s clandestine attack on Shikder in Khulna city’s Majid Sarani area, police said they were yet at dark about the attack perpetrators or motive but launched an “immediate manhunt” for their arrest.
Local police station chief Animesh Mondal, however, informed reporters that Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) authorities now shifted Shikder to its City Imaging Centre to pinpoint the state of his injury.
