Excelsior Correspondent
Baramulla, May 11: Protesting against the sumo service, which they say, has been illegally started from bus stand Baramulla, scores of drivers and conductors today protested, demanding that the sumos that are plying from the bus stand should be stopped immediately.
The protesting drivers said that they are carrying on with the strike to press for their demands for 8th day, but nobody has come to listen to their grievances so far.
“We are demanding that the Sumos that have been allowed to ply from the stand, illegally, should be stopped. They were brought to the stand from another spot, the move which is a direct assault on the livelihood of around 200 persons,” said Farooq Ahmad Bhat, President Western Bus Service, Baramulla.
While administration seems not to be interested in the problem, the commoners are set to suffer as the Baramulla Coordination Committee has called for complete shutdown in the bus stand. “The busses were already on the strike, from Monday, everybody will on the strike,” he said.
Farooq Ahmad Bhat added that there were few vested interests that are creating the fuss by letting the sumos to enter into the stand. “We don’t have anything personal grudge with these sumo drivers, but the fact that they are being allowed to ply from the stand is affecting our livelihood,” he said.
President Western Bus Service, Baramulla and Chairman the Baramulla Coordination Committee unanimously said that they want that a spot should be indentified where from both the parties will carry on with their operations.
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