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A forceful rather than voluntary act
Md. Khalid Ahmed
Bandhs cause financial losses, disruption of normal life and great inconvenience to public at large. Its adverse affects are felt by the students in terms of inconvenience in getting to educational institutions, lost classroom instructions, rescheduling / cancellation of examinations etc.
Our constitution allows us freedom of expression and speech. For a true democracy, it is essential that people have the right to express their opinions. These provide valuable feedback to the policy makers and help shape up the future India. However, of late it is a very disheartening trend that the protests are mostly being lodged in the form of bandhs, which often turn violent. Our politicians need to be committed to the progress of our nation and should adopt methods that don’t have the bad effects of bandhs. While the right to protest should remain, bandh as a means towards it should be made illegal by the government.
Haritha
Bandh is a form of protest during which a group of people or a party declares a strike and the strike is expected to be voluntary. But today people are forced to participate in bandhs. Bandhs were a powerful weapon to show protest against something wrong. The Supreme Court has banned bandhs in 1998, but the politicians who should be implementing law and order, disobey it.
During bandhs the party workers forcibly interrupt the classes which is an insult to the teachers and the education system. This imparts a very negative effect on the students. Institutions should be very strict in this aspect; classes shouldn’t be discontinued or closed for the fear of bandhs. This evil practice has to be fought together.
Sandeep Annepu
When the time-table for an examination is announced, the students plan their revision based on the time gap available between one exam and the other. Effecting a change in the schedule will leave a telling adverse effect on their performance.
The bandh call by a political party and subsequent postponement of Intermediate examination to a Sunday and conduct of the next exam on the very next day have marred the effective participation of the students. They have defeated the very objective of the system for their political mileage. Our judiciary might have intervened on its own, banned the bandh and directed the board of Intermediate Education to go ahead as per the original schedule.
K.Bhoopathy
A bandh call has become a common phenomenon recently for every simple cause. Various political parties have been using it as a weapon to achieve their selfish and political ends at the cost of precious lives of the students. The bandh calls went to such dangerous proportions even to change the schedules of various examinations to be conducted by Intermediate board and various universities also. Lot of time is wasted due to rescheduling of examinations. Such rescheduling leads to frustration and uncertainty among student community. The State and Central Government should take preventive steps in this regard and they should enact laws to prevent such untimely and irresponsible bandh calls.
G.Parashuram Rao
Bandh call nowadays has become common issue. The political leaders consider as the best means to satisfy its demands or to express their agitation against ruling parties.
D. Sushma
Politicians who are expected to do some welfare to the society do not take in view the sensitive issues like exams. Examinations which play a vital role in students’ life are to be conducted as scheduled. But due to these political conflicts when the exams are postponed the students come under excessive stress. As Students have to write many competitive exams after the Inter exams, any change in schedule or postponement can have an impact on other Competitive exams too.
These Bandh calls also affects common public, commuters find a tough time reaching their destinations. I strongly condemn these bandh calls which cause inconvenience to the students as well as common public.
R. Prathyusha
Political parties or organisations must work for the welfare of the people but not expect people to behave according for their whims and fancies. ‘Bandh’ is an essential weapon to protest against the policy of the Govt. by the suffered but in now-a-days it seems to be a stylish weapon in the hands of the political parties.
I am an intermediate student and I found very inconvenient and actually affected my preparations itself. Writing two exams and that too crucial exams like Intermediate is difficult. Political parties will never understand what goes through the mind of students in such examinations.
Though the Bandh spoiled the entire fixed schedule of the senior intermediate examinations, it did not serve the purpose of their demand.
It is unfortunate that while students and their parents suffered the political leaders and their henchmen are pretty happy for what they have done.
Royal
Bandh is the only way people can show their protest when government takes arbitrary decisions against their welfare or if it fails to fulfil the promises that it had made at the time of elections. But this is not the case now. Instead the political leaders are framing their own issues and are calling for Bandhs for their own political benefits.
The cancellation of the board exam which really had upset the schedule and even the students were disturbed mentally. It’s really a burden for those young minds to do all at one time and many more such work delay issues.
We are in a democratic country so Enlighten yourself and the people around you that we are not the servants of any politician to oblige to their acts instead they are the public servants. Let’s put up an end to the bandhs called for petty issues.
Haritha
Calling and holding of Bandhs has become a fashion to Indian Political parties including ruling parties for petty political gains.
K. Ramakrishna
A Bandh professing to protest against anti-people policies becomes anti-people itself, as it inflicts great suffering on lakhs of people. The organisers of bandhs are very well aware of the terrible consequences to the common man. Bandhs are illegal, unconstitutional and undemocratic. Political parties and Politicians should be blamed for this menace. Politicians should change their mindset and think like statesmen. It is the prime responsibility of the Intellectuals and media to raise their voice against the Bandh culture. Teachers and students should fight for Bandh free society. Judicial Activism will definitely bring the change in the present scenario.
K. Ramakrishna
Bandhs, rasta rokos organised every now and then for their selfish things have been testing the patience of the public. Unfortunately in some cases such bandhs have been called by the ruling parties also and majority of times they are being forced on the public in which public property like buses are burnt.
Political parties concerned should sort out the difference of opinion on the floor of the House concerned or in the courts.
Citizens are thoroughly fed-up and time has now come to say enough is enough and warn such parties to behave themselves. Citizens should earnestly request the Judiciary to severely deal with the political parties concerned when they indulge in provocative pronouncements which result in bandhs, violence and damage to the public /private property.
They should be criminally prosecuted for obstructing free movement of citizens as well as for wilful damage to public and private property.
K. Bhaskara Rao
Every thing is fair in love, war and politics has become the present trend. It is a shame and disgrace on part of our politicians to resort to bandhs to settle their scores with their rivals creating problems for the common man.
Undoubtedly public has a major role to counter it. Public is well aware but has remained silent spectator in a hopeless, helpless and in a state of fear while greedy good doers, beneficent beasts of prey swarm over their lives in the name of bandhs. .
Learned people, statesmen, philanthropists and teachers should get united to protest these arbitrary decisions.
When legislative and executive fail to solve the problem it is the Judiciary which should bell the cat and protect the rights of citizens.
Freedom from fear is the freedom
I claim for us, our mother land!
Freedom from the burden of politicians,
Bending our head and breaking our back
Freedom from the shackles of politicians
Freedom from the anarchy of Bandhs.
Devabhaktuni Sushma
The bandh call given by a political party recently led the cancellation of the Intermediate and Degree examinations-shame! As a victim of this bloody act I was left in agony along with scores of students at the examination centre on the very first exam of Degree second year(K.U). What on earth did these greedy politicians achieve-nothing but to upset lakhs of students. Its time that the political parties give up this ugly habit and adopt some novel ways to register their protest (which is perhaps the most impossible thing they can do). Or else the judiciary should intervene and deal the culprits creating this menace with an iron hand.
Md. Khalid Ahmed
The future and whole year’s struggle for having excellent academic record depends on how students perform in their public examination.
If there is any untoward incident or interruption takes place for this schedule, the mindset gets destroyed and it cannot perform and accept the challenges ahead. If the test is not held on a particular day whole system gets disrupted. The department, teachers, the expenditure, and the preparation time of the students go a waste. These political parties must keep these things in their mind before going for any kind of bandh.
Sandeep Annepu
Are they really fighting for a good cause? There is a need of promoting a national character, which would deter such elements from going into such unlawful bandhs.
Venkata Bhavani
It isn’t just this isolated incident, but every single bandh, declared by a few political parties scavenging for some kind of attention from the public which reflects this fact. My argument here is that politicians in India are known to enter politics for vested interests and so it is not surprising that they call for State-wide, district-wise bandhs et al to promote their so called ‘causes’.
By whichever means possible. However, what is discouraging is the fact that we allow ourselves, as a public body to be governed by such whims and fancies.
Agreed that essentially, politicians are the ones to blame in such cases, but isn’t it us, as the owners of restaurants, theatres, Educational institutions, companies to give in? Why don’t we see a public protest against the grievance caused by political parties due to the bandhs, instead of wasting precious time burning effigies of film actors and debating the ethics of a fictional film? After all, it is our lives that are thrust into suspension form daily functioning due to such bandhs, not the stinking rich politicians who declare it!
Neha Bhat
An ultra modern BANDH of India may be defined as "B"asically "A" "N"uisance, "D"emented "H"azard. Propitious to none other than refractory politicians, these acts affect a lot on the lay man’s life.
Just think of the frustration a student undergoes if an exam is postponed for duration of 15 days, for which he has been preparing rigorously, due to some trivial Bandh! I can assure these great politicians that no one of my generation pays heed to these bandhs and just considers that day as yet another holiday, which implies that their main motive of public attention towards their Bandh, is shattered!
Sharath Chandra Yellapragada
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