In 2013 February the Supreme Court of India in a letter to the Union Government and all the State Governments sought explanations about the extent to which the action taken for implementing order of the Court banning all hartals and bandhs in the country. And it was in 2009 the SC banned all hartal and bandhs and issued some concrete directions asking compensation from parties indulging in hartals.
Whatever be the clarification by the government on this issue the hartal observance goes unabated. Today in Kerala normal life across was disrupted by the hartal called by BJP demanding resignation of Finance Minister K M Mani in the wake of graft charges against him
The state government has declared a holiday for educational institutions. Thus Kerala has become ‘Hartal’s own country’ once again. But the more surprising reality is: Justice P Sadasivam, who issued orders against hartal, is the governor of the Sate at present.
When will our court orders take a more redolent route?
K A Solaman
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