Dear All
I am not able to understand the difference between Hartal and bandh. For all practical purposes, they are the same, none is alloowed to do any business or undertake any travel. By using the name 'hartal" they are hoodwinking the judiciary which has banned bandhs. Justice Koshy condemning hartal as a violation of human rights is a positive step and hope he will do some thing to stop this menace, which not only causes inconveneices to the general public but also has brought a bad name to the state. .
I tried to analyse the mindset of the persons who resort to violence during the hartals. It is a fact that there is hardly any educated or well employed person among the persons on the roads enforcing closure of the shops or threaten or damage vehicles. These persons being uneducated are in the lowest strata of society and no one cares for them on normal days. But on the hartal days they want to show of their power by enforcing the closure of shops and stopping traffic.
Another illness among these semi-literate persons is envy. If they find any one especially in their neighbourhood is doing a good business and prospering, they would form an action committee and try to close the business venture by raising imaginary problems . I was surprised when some people objected to a person having a dairy farm with ten cows on the ground that the cowshed generates bad smell and mosquitoes. In my childhood, almost every house in Kerala had at least one cow and my family had about 15 cows, mainly for the cowdung to be used as fertizer being an agricultural family, in the absence of chemical fertilizers at that time. At that time hardly there were any mosquito and no one felt the smell of cowsheds as offensive.
Two days back there was a press briefing by the Kitex management that they would be shifting out of the country and today there was a rejoinder to it by the so called action committe. One of the allegation against the company is that the effluents from the toilets of the employees are going to a water source. It is difficult to believe that a reputable company would do that. I strongly believe that it is a way of blackmailing the company to get financial benefits.
Before I conclude,let me narrate a true story of a person, who returned from Gulf and started a small industry in one of the border towns of Kerala. The person started a manufacturing business employing about 60 persons, about half of them from Tamil Nadu. It progressed, soon union was formed and unreasonable demands were made by the union. The owner, who had other sources of income to live, preferred to close down the unit than succumbing to threats and pressures. The unit remained closed for six months and all the employees lost their jobs. After about six months a few of the Tamil employees met the owner and requested him to relocate the unit to Tamil Nadu, within one km from the border and they assured full protection. Soon the unit was relocated to Tamil Nadu and started working with the Tamilian employees. The former Keralites workers reached the factory and tried to form a union and get their job back through it. The Tamilians gave them a good beating and told them never to enter the factory compound. I have been told that the unit is now functionig well in Tamil Nadu with only Tamil workers.
Thomas Mathew
From: bosekolleril@yahoo.comDate: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 23:15:39 -0700
Subject: Re: [www.keralites.net] Harthaal
Dear Friends,
Like bhand, hartal also is to be banned for assuring a peaceful lifeof the common public. Hartal is a terrorist activity, because it is force on the unorganised public by creating a terrifiing atmosphere deploying goondas by the parties declaring the hartal. Itwould beworthremembering that all of us including political partieswere in full agreement with the idea of banningbhand. The banessentially has to be extentedon to the present day hartal, whichobviously has all the evils and anti social elements of a bhand.
Onrganisations and political parties have every right to protest; but that should not be an illegal intrusion into the privacy or rights of a citizens assured by the constitution. Unless the word 'hartal' is removed from themodes of protest, the general public will continue to suffer from the evils of hartal. Let us resort to other peaseful means of protest to make our social life a safe and peaseful experience in our country.
With love and regards
Bose
--- On Fri, 9/28/12, M. Nandakumar <nandm_kumar@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: M. Nandakumar <nandm_kumar@yahoo.com>
Subject: [www.keralites.net] Harthaal
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