20th August, 2008 - India again goes to dogs today

Again an all India bandh and again India goes to dogs. One wonders when will this protests end because these protests have no bearing and no impact. Gone are the days of British government which respected such protests. Today's administration hardly cares for such a call. Then why call for a bandh? A national time pass.

Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) — the CPM-backed trade union — is enforcing a strike at Haldia Petrochemicals Limited (HPL) plant from August 18 to 20. The three-day strike has been called by the CITU-backed Haldia Petrochemicals Employees union, demanding regularisation of 183 casual employees who they say are working with the company since 2000. Now this one plant hartal will spread to other parts of the state and imagine that millions will get affected for the plight of 183 people and that too against an establishment who sits in one single office. Long live democracy.