{"id":4238,"date":"2026-10-12T10:50:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T10:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/?p=4238"},"modified":"2026-10-12T10:50:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T10:50:29","slug":"lpg-sales-to-halt-nationwide-for-two-days-from-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/?p=4238","title":{"rendered":"LPG sales to halt nationwide for two days from Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The LP Gas Traders Cooperative Society Limited today announced a two-day nationwide sales shutdown for Thursday and Friday, protesting what it described as repeated harassment over LPG cylinder prices and supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Association President Selim Khan announced the decision at a press conference at the National Press Club in Dhaka on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He said traders had repeatedly faced harassment over gas cylinder prices and supplies, prompting them to suspend sales at all gas shops nationwide for the two days.<\/p>\n<p>Selim Khan warned that the traders would launch tougher protest programmes if their demands were not met.<\/p>\n<p>The latest price hike in the domestic LPG market came on 4 October, when the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) raised the price of a 12kg cylinder by Tk252 to Tk1,837.<\/p>\n<p>-TheDailySun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LP Gas Traders Cooperative Society Limited today announced a two-day nationwide&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[174,942],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-power-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4240,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions\/4240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}