Another day another strike

Indians love to Bandh, striek, or what we call this in the rest of the world – protest. I dont know why they use the english language in the way they do, but here its a strike, not a protest and you remember that!

In the case of yesterdays protest it was over ‘price rises’ , now what price rises they are talking about we will never know, but these protests totally bring the place to a standstill.

I got the call we weren’t going to the office at about 7.30am from co-workers, and they warned me to stay inside. I went onto the balcony and noticed the road out front was deadly quiet. Meaning that there was unrest, little did I know that just out of sight down the road the ‘strike’ was going a little violent and they were burning buses and trashing cars… why?, we will never know.

Later on in the day when the roads looked normal again I needed to go to the store across the road in the carpark to get some water and diet coke, I walked to the front of the apartment complex, and then noticed the mall was in fact shuttered up like a war was about to break out!… luckily I had 8 beers left in the fridge!

Here is the newspaper article on it from todays paper:

Goondas find Bengal haven - BJP bandh rampage reflects Delhi ambitions

OUR BUREAU

A BJP supporter enforcing the bandh at the mouth of Rajarhat New Town. (Aranya Sen) Nov. 30: The scale of street hooliganism during today’s BJP-sponsored bandh left Bengal stunned amid indications that the unexpected violence stemmed from the ambitions and rivalries of central and state party leaders. Bandh-enforcers armed with sticks and rods torched three buses, attacked cars, snatched drivers’ keys and blocked traffic to Calcutta’s IT hub and airport as the Left government, true to its form during recent bandhs, stayed a spectator. (See Metro) A senior official said the police presence on Calcutta’s streets was less than even the 2,000-odd personnel deployed for the November 24 SUCI bandh — probably the government counted on the BJP having never been a major force in Bengal. Sources, however, suggested the violence had little to do with the official reason for the bandh — price rise — over which the BJP is agitating nation-wide. It was the result, they said, of the efforts of outgoing BJP national president Rajnath Singh, and new state party chief Rahul Sinha, to impress the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

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