Kochi: The two-day all India strike turned out to be an all Kerala strike, hitting daily activities of the common man even as small provision shops were forced to down shutters.
The left parties are using the anti people activities to protest against the BJP government’s anti people policy.
Interestingly, the electors of the government are among those being tortured by the parties while police is looking helplessly.
Even in places where the left parties are weak, the strike has impacted badly. The people appeared to be more scared of the left party activists than the police who struggled to restrict the crowd during Covid lockdown.
A clear case of violation of fundamental rights, such things have been happening in the state since long.
Things remained normal across the country except Kerala and West Bengal where the left parties have withered into a minority group.
It was late Chief Minister Jayalalithaa who dealt with such strikes mercilessly when she dismissed thousands of government employees who went on a strike in 2003.
Even when the court refused to intervene in the plea of the affected employees, they went on their knees before the state government seeking reinstatement.
Since then the state government has not witnessed a strike of that intensity.
But when the protector becomes a destructor, what would the people do?
A football referee of Odisha was waylaid while he was going to the Kozhikode railway station. An autorickshaw was damaged in Kozhikode while many workers were deprived to report for duty in the Kochi refinery, and other places in Ernakulam. The protesters indulged in many unlawful activities in Thiruvananthapuram where BJP clashed with the left activists.
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