Whether it is ruled by UDF or LDF the hartal drill continues and undoubtedly a day is reserved for hartal in every month in Kerala. Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy or Opposition leader V S Achuthanandan have justification to hartal calls. For ordinary people “hartal” is the synonym of bandh. Varoius courts in India had issued orders against hartals and in effect all these court drills had reached nowhere. Many precious court hours could have been saved if the hartal issue was not taken for discussion by the court.
When the court banned the bandh as undemocratic and unconstitutional, the word has been transformed conveniently in to hartal by the political parties. The parties consider there is no existence for them if occasional hartals are not being observed in the state. Many criticize hartals because of the damages done by it such as loss of man power, paralysis of industrial sectors , educational institutions, banking organizations etc. However, the hartal brings many advantages too!.
The present financial position of the State Government is very bleak; whatever may be the gesture of the Finance Minister. The major source of income for the government is from the sale of Indian made foreign liquor.The revenue from liquor will be high on hartal day as most people enjoy hartal as a holiday. They keep a bottle of their brand at home and spend the day enjoying liquor along with TV. TV channels have all the spices relating politics and sex and they make a huge profit from it.
All hartals are a kind of unkindness and ways to show the muscle power of political parties. Kerala has become a hartal’s own state and even a two member party could paralyze the state by a hartal call. Rule and ruin is the watchword of the present UDF government and they do nothing to protect common man from hartal tentacles.
K A Solaman
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