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Bandh or 'State sponsored terrorism'?
Written By acoward - 22 January, 2011
Bangalore governance law and order Yeddyurappa Complaint BJP Bandh Strikes
We headed out for restaurant lunch, where we saw that some young people were forcing darshini to close shutters. Owner told, wait 15 minutes sir, 'these people' will go. Who were "these people"? Who is paying for the M&M gaadi they are using? Who is paying for diesel? Are 'these people' doing all this for free. Is it not the ruling party? Ruling party provides rule. Rule means providing us freedom, and law and order.
Dictionary definition of law and order is
- Advocating and following the established social order and the statutes written to enforce such order
Dictionary definition of freedom is
- The capacity to exercise choice; free will, or The condition of being free of restraints
If the ruling party is doing all this, you will call this 'state sponsored terrorism' or not?
COMMENTS
s_yajaman - 23 January, 2011 - 03:22
How did they come out with this number? That is close to $2B/day or about $700B per year or about 60% of India's GDP!! The other number is about 20% of India's GDP.
Would like to know how they arrived at this number. Does Bangalore alone contribute to 20% of our GDP??
Or have you referred to the losses pegged to the "Bharath Bandh" data for Jul 2010?
Srivathsa
state sponsored - tough, state-supported - possible
silkboard - 23 January, 2011 - 03:50
Legally speaking, it may be tough to prove that this bandh or 'terrorism' as put above was state-sponsored. Money coming from ruling party's accounts is not state's. It may be hard to prove that any of the underlying money came from state's accounts (Gok).
But, the ministers are on record having made calls for the bandh, and may have made visible appearances to support the bandh. So "state-supported" is more accurate description and should stand legal grounds.
If there are PILs against the bandh on these grounds, I think the courts could provide further embarrassment to this BJP government.
Economic loss pegged at 10K Crores!
kbsyed61 - 22 January, 2011 - 16:37
We all love numbers, data, as it speaks the language of truth.
The economic loss due to ONE Day Bandh for Bangalore is pegged at 10,000 Crores(Then Thousand crores) by FKCCI and 3000 Crores by CII.
Add to that loss of life and property.
This is the cost we all citizens paid for BJP's soveriegn and democratic right of protest and demonstration to oppose any body who dares to question their acts and deeds.
kbsyed61 - 23 January, 2011 - 04:44
Yajmanre,
My bad. The 10K Crore figure is for all India. The figures are quoted in DNA.
Per this report, Infosys HR chief Mr. Mohandas Pai pegs the loss to Bangalore alone is Rs.1000 Crore.
Even if the numbers are low, it doesn't make Bandhs justify. I am pained when an ordinary laborer looses his daily wages because of no work. Basically the bandh is depriving these souls their bread. What can be more deplorable than this?
We can spend hours debating whether it is private terrorism or state terrorism. My question is much more basic. Is bandhs democratic?
Per TOI Report, Loss figures are 2K!
kbsyed61 - 23 January, 2011 - 05:02
Per TOI headlines, the loss is 2000 crores.
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