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Defying diktat

If press statements issued by organisations representing merchants and bus operators in the district on the eve of the hartal called by the CPI(ML) are anything to go by, the hartal today hardly stands a chance of being successful. The Vyapari Vyavasayi Ekopana Samithi had said there was no question of

keeping their shops closed in response to the call for hartal by what they said was a party having little mass base. Private buses would ply as usual, announced the association representing the bus operators in the district.

However, the majority of merchants and bus operators rejected the calls of their respective associations, as very few buses operated their schedules and very few shopkeepers chose to keep their shops open on the hartal day. The office-bearers of these organisations would have been spared the embarrassment of making statements having little significance had they been aware of what everybody knows - that a hartal hardly fails in Kerala? Some of the members of these organisations may be tempted to ask the question.

Mohamed Nazeer

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