Low areas of Chattogram water-logged, the mayor became marooned!
The lower part of Chattogram city has been submerged under water due to continuous rain since midnight of Thursday. Water logging was formed at various places. Chattogram City Mayor Beer Muktijoddha Rezaul Karim himself too could not escape from this flood. The mayor has become almost marooned.
A visit to the mayor's house in the city's Bahaddarhat area on Friday (August 4) afternoon saw the road in front of the large gated house covered in water. As soon as you step through the gate of that house, the water rises above your knees. A little further ahead is the two-storey residence of the mayor with an iron gate on the left.
The first thing that caught my eye is the mayor's car with the black chassis seal on the wheels. As soon as you enter, the ground floor of the two-story house is rippled in the water. Two security guards were sitting next to him. However, none of the mayor's family was seen.
It is known that the mayor was at home as it was closed on Friday. Moreover, he could not come out for the whole day because there was water in the basement of the house since morning. In other words, the mayor was in a kind of house arrest. Meanwhile, the mayor's Bahaddarhat house was waterlogged due to the water drainage system.
Water logging is a familiar feature of Chattogram city. City residents see such a scene when it rains for just a few hours. When will the people of this city get the benefits of the drainage project of hundreds of crores of takas? This question is now public.
Not only the mayor's house, but also all the low-lying areas of the city, including Chawkbazar, Khatunganj, Riazuddin Bazar, Agrabad and Halishahar, have gone under water due to continuous rain.
As today is a holiday, all the offices and courts are closed, so most of the city dwellers have stayed at their homes. However, ordinary people who go out for urgent needs have to bear extreme suffering. Shop owners including markets in low-lying areas are worried.
A young man named Abdul Qayyum said, I left to go to GEC in the morning and went to Bahaddarhat. I saw the road in the vast water. Rickshaw drivers are demanding double fare. I couldn't go anymore. Our sorrow will not go away.
Sarwar of Badurtala area said that he woke up and saw knee-deep water on the roads and houses of the entire area.
Ujjal Kanti Dhar, assistant meteorologist of Patenga office in Chattogram, said that 33 millimeters of rainfall has been recorded in the last 24 hours till 9 am in Chattogram. Monsoon is now active over Bangladesh. That is why it is raining.
It may rain intermittently for another two to three days. The sea ports have been asked to show warning signal number 3, he said.