Hartal Nation:Kerala
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Why is there a Hartal in Kerala today?
Amarnath Land issue it seems.
How is Kerala of all the states related to this?
How many people from Kerala have heard about this temple leave alone visiting the shrine?
Why is the government so spineless?
How can a BJP-VHP of all the parties call for a Hartal in Kerala?
Mind you, BJP has NEVER EVER won a single seat in Kerala(leave PC Thomas winning as part of NDA with his midget IFDP)
Bandh was banned by Honourable High Court of Kerala in 1997. Before this verdict,Hartal meant closure of shops.Now Hartal has taken the meaning of Bandh.(as it was before the verdict)
Kerala is now the land of professional agitators who turn into vandals for any political party.
People fear this tribe and do not get out to work. So the politicians win.
I am sure that BJP ruled states including Karnataka is working normally.
Recent Hartals in Kerala:
June 4:Hartal in Kattapana, a town in Idukki district.
Reason:Attack on UDF workers
June 5:BJP and the ruling left All India Hartal only in Kerala
Reason:Fuel hike
June 20:Hartal in Trissur district
Reason:Police beat up KSU workers(KSU is Kerala Students Union with an average member age of 30+, all Phd candidates, for sure)
June 27:BJP Hartal in Trivandrum
Reason:Yuva Morcha(BJP feeder organization) DYFI(political gundas run by the commies) clash
June 30: Idukki again.UDF(original opposition in Kerala assembly)
Reason:Issues related to Kattapan Service Cooperative Bank elections and CPM- Congress clash
The above list does not include panchayat,taluk level hartals.
July 2 
unalur,thanks to Congress;Pattanapuram, CPI
Reason: AIYF Secretary PS Supal arrested for freeing arrested criminals
July 3 :BJP Nation wide hartal; Kerala shut down!!!
Reason: Amarnath issue
Kodungallur in Thrissur(thanks dinu for the correction) district
Reason: DYFI leader Biju injured in political clash succumbing to his injuries.
Edit 1
Kerala observed its 57th shutdown of this year Thursday, if one takes into account all the village, district and state-level shutdowns. (Says Sify )
(Facts&Image:Malayala Manorama)
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43 comments
Hmm…
Hoping no hartal will be held during Aug 15,16,17… Have some thoughts of attending that boatcamp-sorry blogcamp in houseboat-will meet you there if I make it.
@Shrinidhi
Yo! Hope to meet you if both of us lad there, lets make it that way.
Hartals Hartals Hartals……..
Today its hartal in kerala right? its declared for all india, but ‘enforced’ only in kerala right?
@xylene
Yes, all India Hartal only in Kerala
Hartal’s own country. they have to live up to that reputation … I heard on some malayalam channel, there have been 25 hartals last month alone. People even had the cheek to say on televison, that its a nice way to relax and that wine shops have brisk business a day before the hartals. Sad !!!
@Deepti
Hating every political party and their feeders.
The prominent hartals have been listed out in my post.
Lets not discuss on Kerala’s alcohol consumption.That need to be studied separately like an annexure topic to high Human Development indices and Kerala Model of Development.
Yes its pathetic. I didnt know we had so many so recently! Its getting worse everyday!
@Cris
I know lady! Shoot all these buggers!
Hmm I really can’t complain.. I used to wait for these bandhs when in school.. I envy today’s kids.. damn how many holidays do they get in a month!!
@Balu
You have option of moving to Calicut.
Write on gaming for Mathrubhumi , what say
I’ve copied the “listen to blog widget” from your blog…
Hope you dont mind.
@Shrinidhi
Thats fine. Anyways you can register at blogbard.com
Orissa is more beautiful than Gujarat
I didn’t know there were so many hartals in Kerala. It’s rarely reported here. I wonder why the communists are still ruling there. The populace is so educated, why aren’t they being voted out!!
@nishant
Random comment?
@Nita
Yes, so many of them.
Commies,Congress and now even the midget BJP can call for a hartal in Kerala.
Soon, even a call for Hartal in USA or Fiji would lead to a hartal in Kerala.
Thats the situation.
Will it be a better idea to declare 2 days every month as Hartal days?
Anyone wanting to call for Hartal for whatsoever reason should celebrate Hartaal only on these 2 days!
when i was in law academy, we had a strike for something happening in poland…i wanted then to be introduced to one polish guy who even knew about Kerala…now i take that back since my stupid cousin went and married a polish girl…
looks like the only place any work gets done by a keralite is when they are outta their own state…man ,ship that whole bunch of political bastards to dubai and lets watch the fun…
its these monkeys who makes a mockery of that place…
read a good line by Mohanlal today in manorama (interviewed while he was shooting for the movie Kargil)… it talked about how villages on the border suffer difficulties so that the nation remains safe, while we go around stoning buses…
@Shrinidhi
People have been thinking on these lines.
@tys Trust me. Purath irangiyaale nannaavoo ennanu avastha.
@manuscrypts
Me too read the same yestdy in Malayala Manorama. How true.
Good snapshot of the hartal data, Nikil.
You know, scientific analysis of such information could be redirected towards achieving similar results to what Reia commented in Nithin’s post http://nithin-rajan.blogspot.com/2008/07/queue-etiquette-and-us.html
@Tedy
That is a wonderful info.
Appol nannavum alle
@Nikhil: Nannaavanam… nannaavendathaanu… Nannaavumaayirikkum…
levandeyokke eppakku nalu kodukkanam – as jagathi would put it..
// Kodungallur in Ernakulam district //
Kodungallur is in Thrissur district
@dinu.
Thanks. Mea culpa.
HUGE mistake that is.
Happened in the typing enthu.
Corrected.
Tnx
@Mady
Idich koomb kalakkanam
@tedy
Nannavum
dog and its curly tail. wat CAN be done? anyhow, at leats the BJP or whatever party need not worry before calling an All India hartal tat it wont be successful. Keralam ennoru naadundenkil athu hartal successful aakkum. pathetic!
kollam…
anyway belated harthal ashamsakal..
Kerala will be the only part in the world where there was a harthal following the hanging of Saddam Hussein. All we can do is enjoy the harthal, really nothing more. A change??? I don’t think it is going to happen in the near future
@amooma
I am an eternal optimist.
@nishanth
thanks for dropping by.
@Nikhil George
I know. ridiculous.
Something needs to be done about this one.
1. How about keeping a “political” condition like you need to have minimum 5% of the vote polled in a constituency to declare hartal there?
2. Making the Organisations pay for the damages if any. It was done in one BJP hartal.
But despite hartals, life goes on in Bangalore and Bombay. why not in Kerala?
For all the HARTHAL ‘lovers’ out here, please note that there is a site that is exclusively dedicated to harthals…Check it
http://www.harthal.com
Is this blog on harthal too?
@BVN
They would not accept, but is a good suggestion.
Ya, life goes on elsewhere, not in Kerala.Something amiss.
@Sabareesh
Thanks.
@Deepti
You mean this is a fav topic for me?
i mean you havent updated since long
You took my comment in a wrong way .. I was asking if you have gone on strike here .. no updates since long
@Deepti
Call it bad punctuation and my stupidity
Would be interesting to know why the other Kerala folks, those not actively involved in the hartal but affected by it, do not take out a hartal to protest the frequent hartals
so true.. great post..!!
@ Anil : There was a hartal on 19 Jul against Hartal. Came on CNN-IBN http://www.ibnlive.com/news/kerala-forum-calls-for-mock-strike-against-poor-rain/69168-3.html
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@Anil
Thanks for visiting.
Ranjith answered your doubt.
@anu
Thanks doc
@Ranjith
Thanks machu.
HArtals have become the national festival of Kerala. All sections of society follow it in a feeling of unity
what more do ye want???:)
Hartal is the vein of kerala through which the ‘killer blood’ (liquor of all sorts) runs through the keralites’ bodies. Hartal is the most celebrated event after Onam and Christmas in kerala.
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