Communist Party of India (Marxist) - hartal https://elections2014.cpim.org/tags/hartal en Massive Response to Protest Day https://elections2014.cpim.org/content/massive-response-protest-day <div class="field field-name-field-social field-type-addthis field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style " addthis:title="Massive Response to Protest Day - Communist Party of India (Marxist)" addthis:url="https://elections2014.cpim.org/content/massive-response-protest-day"><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="standard"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_facebook"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_twitter"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_email"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_"></a> </div> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-date field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2012-09-20T00:00:00+05:30">Thursday, September 20, 2012</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><!--break--> <div align="center"><b> </b></div> <div align="right"> </div> <div> </div> <div><b>Press Statement</b></div> <div> </div> <div>The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:</div> <div> </div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"><b> </b></div> <div>The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) congratulates the people for the massive response to the protest day on September 20, 2012.  Eight parties had given a call for observing the day through hartal, picketing and court arrests against the steep rise  in prices of diesel, limiting of gas cylinders and opening retail trade to FDI.  The NDA had also called for a bandh on this day.</div> <div> </div> <div>The hartal has been successful in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamilnadu, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand and other states.</div> <div> </div> <div>In West Bengal, there was a total strike.  Vehicles and traffic was off the roads; shops and markets were closed; workers in the industrial establishments and tea gardens were on strike and schools and colleges were closed.  The strike call was implemented despite attacks on Left Front workers by TMC goons in a number of places.</div> <div> </div> <div>In Tripura, there was a complete bandh all over the  state with all offices, markets and educational institutions closed.</div> <div> </div> <div>In Kerala, a hartal was observed on September 15, therefore the day was observed through protest marches in all the 140 assembly constituencies under the banner of the Left and Democratic Front.</div> <div> </div> <div>In Delhi, leaders of the eight parties among them Mulayam Singh Yadav, H. D. Deve Gowda, Chandrababu Naidu, Prakash Karat, S. Sudhakar Reddy, A. B. Bardhan, Ram Gopal Yadav and Sitaram Yechury courted arrest at Parliament Street.</div> <div> </div> <div>In Tamilnadu, Left leaders and cadres conducted picketing in 200 places. More than 50,000 protestors were arrested.</div> <div> </div> <div>In Odisha, the BJD has called for a protest day on September 17 due to the Nuakhai festival in western Odisha.  The Left parties and the Samajwadi party called for a hartal on September 20 which was observed widely with transport, shops and commercial establishments closed. </div> <div> </div> <div>In Maharashtra, there was no strike in Mumbai because of Ganesh Chaturthi. Protest demonstrations and local strikes took place in various cities and towns.</div> <div> </div> <p>The widespread support for the hartal manifested the anger of the people against the anti-people measures taken by the UPA government.  The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) demands of the Manmohan Singh government  that it cancel the FDI in retail, the disinvestment of public sector shares, rollback the price hike  of diesel and restriction on gas cylinders.  The struggle against these anti-people measures should be intensified in the coming days.   </p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/september-20-protest" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">September 20 Protest</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/hartal" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">hartal</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/fdi-retail" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">FDI in Retail</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/diesel-price-hike" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Diesel price hike</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/disinvestment" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Disinvestment</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/cooking-gas" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Cooking Gas</a></div></div></div> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:22:47 +0000 murali 1513 at https://elections2014.cpim.org https://elections2014.cpim.org/content/massive-response-protest-day#comments Successful Countrywide Hartal https://elections2014.cpim.org/content/successful-countrywide-hartal <div class="field field-name-field-social field-type-addthis field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style " addthis:title="Successful Countrywide Hartal - Communist Party of India (Marxist)" addthis:url="https://elections2014.cpim.org/content/successful-countrywide-hartal"><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="standard"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_facebook"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_twitter"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_email"></a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_"></a> </div> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-date field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2010-04-27T00:00:00+05:30">Tuesday, April 27, 2010</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><!--break--><p> The call given by the thirteen parties for a countrywide hartal against price rise on April 27 has met with a big response in most parts of the country.</p> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">The thirteen parties call was joined by other parties in the states. </span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">The success of the hartal shows the anger and discontent among the people at the failure of the Central Government to check price rise. </span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">There was a complete hartal in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Assam, Orissa, Kerala and Tripura. In Andhra Pradesh, there was a successful bandh all over the state with the strike being partial in Hyderabad. In Tamilnadu too there was a hartal all over the state with Chennai having a partial strike. </span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">In West Bengal, there was a total stoppage of work and movement of traffic. In Uttar Pradesh, in all cities and towns markets were closed and rail and road traffic were affected in many places. In Bihar there was a total hartal in all the districts. Rail and road traffic was disrupted due to rail and rasta roko. Markets, commercial establishments and educational institutions remained closed. </span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">In Jharkhand, markets were closed and rail and road traffic came to a halt. Several state government offices remained closed.</span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">In Orissa, all central government offices, central public sector undertakings, banks, railways were paralysed. State government offices in many districts were also closed. Road and railway traffic was paralysed.</span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">In Kerala, all shops and commercial establishments remained closed. Road and rail traffic were paralysed. In major cities and towns LDF workers held demonstrations in support of the hartal.</span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">In Tripura, there was a complete strike with all offices, markets and educational institutions being closed. All vehicular traffic also came to a halt.</span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">In Maharashtra, all the districts observed rasta roko and rail roko for various periods. In Karnataka, more than 50,000 people protested against price rise in Bangaluru and the strike was a success in other districts. In Madhya Pradesh, there was hartal in Gwalior, Morena, Shivni, Bind, Rewa, Singroli and Indore.</span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">In Himachal Pradesh, markets remained closed in Shimla and rasta roko was observed in various parts of the state. </span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">In Chattisgarh, there was hartal in the state capital Raipur. Shops, commercial establishments, hotels and the main markets remained closed. In many parts of the state rasta roko and rail roko was also observed.</span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">In Punjab, there was rasta roko in twenty places in the state. In Haryana, in all towns, there was hartal with markets remaining closed.</span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">In Delhi, there was a strike in many industrial areas by the workers. There was rasta roko and picketing in 25 spots in the city, Ghaziabad, and Noida. </span></div> <p> </p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/price-rise" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Price Rise</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/hartal" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">hartal</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/bandh" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">bandh</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/april-27" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">April 27</a></div></div></div> Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:19:20 +0000 murali 1257 at https://elections2014.cpim.org https://elections2014.cpim.org/content/successful-countrywide-hartal#comments