Fair fares for Overseas Bangladeshis Campaign launched in Brick Lane London UK. Urgent call to Sheikh Hasina to stop the foolish rise in Biman fares

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London

Monday

07 March 2011

By © Muhammad Haque

Fair fares for Overseas Bangladeshis Campaign launched in Brick Lane London UK. Urgent call to Sheikh Hasina to stop the foolish rise in the Biman fares.

UK, the Gulf States and parts of North Africa, typified in the current impasse in Libya where thousands of Bangladeshis remain stranded and desperate, have been 'homes' for the largest numbers of Bangladeshis seeking to improve their economic conditions. It is thus ironic that they are being made to fork out ever increasing sums by the Bangladesh state owned airline BIMAN. The irony is more painful as the Biman is treated as a national symbol of pride and thus protected with zeal by the overseas Bangladeshis travelling home to loved ones after years of arduous stays abroad.

Economically, the rise in fares by Biman has already resulted in the carrier losing serious business shares to rival operators. Industry insiders have confirmed that if Biman fares rise is not reversed immediately, the company may sink without trace as the thousands of Bangladeshis reject the BIMAN craft with their cash and opt to travel at bearable fares on rival lines.

FULL TEXT of the letter to Sheikh Hasina Wazed by the FAIR FARES FOR OVERSEAS BANGLADESHIS Campaign today [Monday 07 March 2011] to be published EXCLUSIVELY here, NEXT.

[To be continued]

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AADHIKARonline Seelotee language Video report on Brick Lane 'Curry' 'touting' and Tower Hamlets Council Published Monday 07 March 2011

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London
Monday
07 March 2011.
By © Muhammad Haque.
AADHIKARonline Seelotee language Video report on Brick Lane 'Curry' 'touting' and how the local Tower Hamlets Council is failing to act...
What the Council should do to make the local environment safe, hygienic for local people as well as customers of the many ‘Curry’ restaurants.
I interviewed Brick Lane [London E1 area] resident Askir Miah yesterday [Sunday] and published one of the video clips later on in the evening. This event was preceded by weeks of effort to find Askir Miah.
I paid several visits to his street looking for him. I could have asked other residents. I decided to ask Askir Miah his views because I recall that he had been involved in collecting signatures to a petition about touting in Brick Lane during 2010.
Here in this second segment of my interview I am publishing some key points about the role of Tower Hamlets Council in this context.
The Council.. is coming across as being ABSENT. As far as the local residents know, Tower Hamlets Council is NOT doing what it should do about the matter of touting in the ‘Curry’ restaurants part of the Lane.
This is the reason why anyone, including the strategically active CONDEM-backing ‘local residents’ who are ALSO Conservatives, are able to make appearances as if they were plain ordinary residents operating for the sheer love of the local environment and the quality of the Brick Lane business Street. Although Askir Miah is also a Conservative Party supporter, my knowledge of his views on touting is that he would be opposing the touting regardless of his Party sympathies. Askir Miah makes the additional comments about the fouled up pavements and streets that the Council is failing to attend to in the vicinity of Brick Lane. I shall not be surprised after these reports to find that Askir Miah has been given extended platforms by some of the ethnicty-linked [or other] media outlets!
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