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Anand Mohan Sahay in Patna
The Uttar Pradesh government has decided not to pay heed to the request of the Bihar government for 300 buses to tide over the ongoing strike of transporters protesting the hike in road tax.
Official sources told rediff.com on Saturday that the UP Chief Minister Mayawati is angry with the ruling Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Laloo Prasad Yadav for splitting the Bahujan Samaj Party in Bihar in June this year.
100,000 commercial vehicles, including buses, trucks and oil tankers, went off the roads in Bihar from Wednesday midnight to protest the steep hike in road taxes.
The strike entered the third day on Saturday without showing any signs of ending, even as the state government toughened its stance against the striking transporters threatening them with the revocation of their national permit licenses and the imposition of the Essential Services Maintenance Act.
The Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi had requested Mayawati two day ago to sanction 300 Uttar Pradesh Roadways buses to ease the situation arising out of the strike.
According to an official of the Bihar state transport department, the state government had offered to pay the necessary charges for the buses.
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