It is AHAB. Anti Hartal Anti Bandh. We rate all political parties of India in the criteria of performance. How they performed? How could they contribute the country towards development? Most of all, did they called for any hartal or a bandh or a strike nationwide or locally? Or did they supported such strikes known by different names? AHAB rate them according to a published criterion. The detailed criterion will be published later in this same page. According to the criterion, the parties will be judged and rated. Final results will be published before each elections.
The voice of India should be echoed beyond the frontiers of the planet. We have to recognize our enemies hide inside the ship. We have to keep vigil, to save ourselves. We have to shout. We have to react. We must not be living dead souls....
Today is 9th August, 2007. Last two weeks witnessed two hartals in Kerala. One is state hartal and the other is national hartal. Both hartals were total success in Kerala. It means that People of Kerala support the ideas of those who called for hartal? No. They fear something.
Its the time to raise our voice against this social injustice... Write. For India. And for her future...
Let me add that I am not totally against to the basic idea behind Hartal or Bandh. Hartal and Bandh are good tools against Fascist totalitarian rulers. In earlier times we have used that tools effectively. I love the idea to protest. To resist. But I oppose the hidden agenda behind the present day hartal gimmicks performed in India, especially Kerala. If the hartal is called for a real social cause, I speak for the hartal. But most Hartals are called against it. The hartals observing in Kerala today is a perfect farce. Lazy people even celebrate hartal as well as a holiday. While in these Hartal gimmicks, people are denied even their basic freedoms to travel and to work. It is a classic example of fascism. If a hartal is rated as success, people has to accept it and they wilfully reject to go for work. In that sense, no hartals in Kerala wins.
The voice of India should be echoed beyond the frontiers of the planet. We have to recognize our enemies hide inside the ship. We have to keep vigil, to save ourselves. We have to shout. We have to react. We must not be living dead souls....
Today is 9th August, 2007. Last two weeks witnessed two hartals in Kerala. One is state hartal and the other is national hartal. Both hartals were total success in Kerala. It means that People of Kerala support the ideas of those who called for hartal? No. They fear something.
Its the time to raise our voice against this social injustice... Write. For India. And for her future...
Let me add that I am not totally against to the basic idea behind Hartal or Bandh. Hartal and Bandh are good tools against Fascist totalitarian rulers. In earlier times we have used that tools effectively. I love the idea to protest. To resist. But I oppose the hidden agenda behind the present day hartal gimmicks performed in India, especially Kerala. If the hartal is called for a real social cause, I speak for the hartal. But most Hartals are called against it. The hartals observing in Kerala today is a perfect farce. Lazy people even celebrate hartal as well as a holiday. While in these Hartal gimmicks, people are denied even their basic freedoms to travel and to work. It is a classic example of fascism. If a hartal is rated as success, people has to accept it and they wilfully reject to go for work. In that sense, no hartals in Kerala wins.
4 comments:
Let there be hartals! Can you imagine walking along MG Road, or crossing across Banerjee Road at Ernakulam during a normal working day? On a hartal day, you can!
Let there be hartal one day in a week [if you count regional hartals, it will be more than once a week, in Kerala] - Let the city-beings take good breath once in a week!
Who said there is no development? BEVCO's turnover must be multiples every other quarter!
Have you noticed private four-wheelers moving smoothly on a hartal day, with the label 'AIRPORT' sticked to its windshield? That is how wise people attain their results. Politicians are trained so. In college days, havent you noticed those guys who initiate strike, attend special classes after the strike?
So, what should we do? Nothing but do what you have to do regardless of hartals or strikes called on when some ** feel itch in their ***, sitting in the luxury of their **.
Nice day
Thanks for your mail. Its quite funny and same time it is serious too.
But there are other sides of Hartal. For eg. the caller party of hartal, each party members get license to do any anti-social activities.
In the recent BJP hartal, you may have seen in TV, someone kicks in the back of a poor lady who was trying to cross the road in a BJP rally. Such incidents are taking place in most of all hartals in the country. There are lots of human rights violation in each hartal. We must not blind that enough. But, as you said, sure, there are lots of people who take advantage from each hartal. If someone wants to announce "I love hartal", its their openion and they can express it without any hesitation.
I commend your call. But having written extensively against this phenomenon at Save Kerala (http://savekerala.blogspot.com), I am absolutely convinced that nothing short of a new political force in Kerala will stop hartals. In other words, we need to organize a party which avows hartals and builds its appeal state-wide. Question is: can we make hartals a single voting point?
I feel that hartals are actually supported by newspapers, who blow out of all proportions, the stray incidents of violence adding to the fear factor. It is they who report/decide whether it was successful. It is they who publish the names of unknown goonds/polititians and give them mileage to do more atrocitiies. The same goondas do the violence for each political party hartal. These are anti-social elements and should be dealt with as the French riot police do. They have special permission to act with firm violence and are quick in their dispersal of anti-social elements, who run when they see the French riot police, because they know what is coming. hartal-anti-socials should be dealt with a cane or tear gas by special police squads. I remember the Malabar Special Police reputation. When these baby faced short men in chatti thoppis come on the scene, there are none to be seen on the roads. They are as violent to anti-socials as required.
In any case, if newspapers have an embargo on hartal news, we can have less hartals. It is they who create the canvass to induce hartals. If hartal violence and effect on the state is not publicised it will not be very attractive to self-serving polititians.
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