Businessmen in Sylhet blocked the road in the city for about an hour on Tuesday, demanding resumption of power supply that remained suspended since Monday afternoon.
Eyewitnesses said several hundred shop owners and their employees of Stadium Market at Rikabibazar went on demonstration at 6:00pm and blocked the VIP Road, demanding immediate resumption of power supply to the area.
A large number of vehicles were stranded during the blockade, creating a tailback stretching about two kilometers between Dargah Gate and Rikabibazar in the city.
The businessmen said the power supply to the Stadium Market, the main medicine market and physicians' chambers, remained suspended from Monday afternoon because of a faulty transformer.
But, the Power Development Board authorities did not take any step to repair the transformer till Tuesday evening, they alleged.
Being informed, local PDB authorities and a team of Kotwali police reached the spot at about 7:00pm.
The businessmen withdrew the barricade on the assurance that power supply would resume by Wednesday afternoon, the sources said.
Sylhet PDB chief engineer Shahinul Islam Khan told New Age, 'We already have stated to restore the transformer in the evening and we hope, it would be possible to repair it before next afternoon.'
Source: New Age
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