A four-hour bandh from 12 noon to 4 pm (sensibly this is not office hours) has been called by the Milli Ittehad Parishad West Bengal, a forum of 13 Muslim organisations to protest Israel's strikes on civilian targets in Gaza City of Palestine.
Ironically lawyer Idris Ali, who had moved high court against bandhs earlier, is himself a party to the bandh call.
The organisers will invite prominent leaders CPM state secretary Biman Bose, Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee and state Congress working president Pradip Bhattacharya to a downtown protest gathering on Friday, hoping that none of them can ignore the invitation with the Lok Sabha election around.
Although Left parties have already condemned the attacks on Palestine, it is not certain whether Bose will join Friday's gathering.
Friday, January 16, 2009
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