Politics Of "Bandh"
"Bandh" or closure of shops, establishments, stoppage of transport systems, in support of the Charter of demands of the Political Parties, during the week alternately, is not appreciated well by the people, barring the protoganists and activists of the political parties and their leaders. when I enquired one of the staunch followers of the co-ordination committee, about the cause for the closure call, he was not clear, except that his boss directed him to make the show a success. Even the establishment people, shopkeepers, who have downed the shutters and the transporters ,who have grounded the vehicle, have understood to have obliged, fearing reprisals and violent attacks from the goons of the organisers of the Bandh.It is not their show of solidarity or support for the day. Further, we hear from the people that these political parties, who all along been towing to the lines of the Ruler in secret or shady deals and lying low, have surfaced now and projecting their existence