LAHORE, Feb 24: The All-Punjab Rickshaw Taxi Drivers Unions Federation on Thursday set up a hunger strike camp in front of the Transport House on Egerton Road to press for withdrawal of a ban on manufacture and registration of two-stroke rickshaws in the province.

Federation chairman Javed Saber started the hunger strike at the camp in the presence of representatives of manufacturers and vendors. Speaking on the occasion, he vowed to continue the strike till the acceptance of the demand for relaxation of ban on registration and manufacture of two-stroke rickshaws.

He said there was no justification for a ban on two-stroke rickshaw when four-stroke rickshaw was neither being manufactured in the country nor available in the market.