The people of Kerala are sick of ____?

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Kids love it. The working class(I mean the people who work and not the shirkers) is sick of it. It is a nighmare for Universities. CBSE and ICSE students hate it (State school students don’t care) You would have got the answer by now. It is Hartal -the new avatar of Bandh (after it was banned a few years back).

The Honble High Court of Kerala came up with a (another?) verdict on Hartal.

It has said that it agrees with the right to stike, but vehemently opposes the “right to make others strike, or be a part of the usual 12 hr drama”. The HC said that it is the duty of the state to protect its citizens and ruled that the state is free to call in Army/ParaMil if necessary to keep things on track. Any loss of private property should be compensated by the state and should be then recovered from the causative agents , usually the political parties in various hues.

The HC was right in not banning Hartal. It said the right of expression can not be stifled. One interseting point is ,if “Hartallers” have the right to “Not work”, non Hartallers have the right to work!!! The state should not succumb to the pressure by declaring holidays. This attitude of the state gives them the enthu to call for Hartal. The state declares the hartal day as a holiday for all educational institutions. This is enough for the Hartallers to reach a state of gratification.

We have a state govt “indebted” to various International Lending Institutions. How is this govt going to pay for the loss of private property during Hartals? Will the govt will ever be able to get the money from the Hartallers? Only time would answer this….

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