Fresh agitation programme for Sylhet and Chittagong region will be announced at a meeting on December 15 while the representatives of transport owners and workers will decide on nationwide programme at their meeting on December 17.

The leaders of transport associations pressed for their demand at a rally of transport owners and workers in the city's court point area on Wednesday night.

Executive President of Sarak Paribahan Federation Shahjahan Khan MP, Vice-president Abdur Rahman Bakht Dudu, central leader Humayun Kabir Mainuddin, Abdul Mannan, Sajib Ali and Saleh ahmed Khashru spoke at the rally.

On the other hand, the people of three upazilas -- Jaintapur, Kanaighat and Gowainghat -- decided to continue boycott of private bus and minibus service.

The decision came from a big rally held at the Jaintapur upazila headquarters on Wednesday afternoon.

The speakers at the rally said the boycott would continue until settlement of disputes over the BRTC service introduced in the region.

They demanded punitive measures against the transport workers who damaged a BRTC bus on Sylhet-Tamabil Road during the Ramadan.

They also called for providing route permit to small passenger carriers like tempo.

Otherwise, the speakers said, tough agitation programme would be launched after 15 days.

Ex-upazila chairman and convenor of 17 Parganas Shalish Samannaya Committee Siraj Uddin Ahmed presided over the rally while former MP Imran Ahmed, former upazila chairman Mohammad Abdullah and Upazila BNP Secretary Abdul Malik Manik spoke.

The people of the three upazilas began the boycott of bus on October 13 protesting the activities of the transport owners and workers who once forced the BRTC service to pull out of Sylhet-Tamabil route.

Meanwhile, the Greater Sylhet Ganadabi Parishad, a non-partisan organsiation, has demanded more BRTC buses in different routes in Sylhet.