January 8th 2020
New Delhi:
On Wednesday bank employees, students and industrial workers went on a strike in parts of the nation against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Ten central worker’s organizations had announced a ‘Bharat bandh’ saying that the government should end the merger of public sector banks, disinvestment of public sector undertakings and the ongoing procedure of codification of 44 work laws.
General secretary of the Center of Indian Trade Unions, Tapan Sen said that there was a bandh in Kerala, Tripura, Assam, Bihar, Punjab, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Goa. Labourers, bank representatives and drivers’ association, students from the Ambedkar University in Delhi and different establishments joined the move. In Delhi, the impact of the bandh was mild with banks and transport administrations running easily. Yet, labourers in certain manufacturing plants in the industrial regions of Okhla and Wazirpur participated in the march.
In West Bengal, the impact was severe where a police vehicle and government properties being vandalized by those attempting to authorize the strike.
Likewise, the24 hour strike was harsh in Kerala, with the general public transport was shut off the streets and banking administrations closed down. Streets were empty as Kerala State Transport Corporation (KSRTC) and private transports, auto-rickshaws and cabs didn’t employ. Though, a couple of private vehicles were seen on the streets.
In Madhya Pradesh, banking and postal administrations suffered due to bandh also Income Tax officers, Anganwadi, cement factory labourers, and insurance agency representatives participated in the strike. The strike evoked a blended reaction in Punjab, while in neighbouring Haryana, the effect was seen placid. Individuals from the All-India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee joined to cause the government to notice the agrarian misery. The urban regions in the state were deprived of vegetables, dairy products as an effect of the strike.
The bandh had a fractional effect in Bihar. Transport and business were open, but banks were shut, and people were depended on ATMs for transactions. In Patna, bandh supporters took out a protest march holding warnings and yelling mottos against the government’s decision. At Rajendranagar some bandh supporters attempted to disturb the development of train transportation; however, the railroad police power scattered them by utilization of mild force.
(article source: THE HINDU)
