By Thangkhala
Every present day prevalent demon in our society will usually find its origin or roots in a very established instrument of society like dowry, caste system, bandhs, violent protests and prevalent socio- political system. The story of problems society faced today due to these ills was not always like this. These were very noble instruments or systems evolved for betterment of society and individuals. With advancement of time, erosion of social values, education, awareness and biggest ever increasing greed for power and money has converted these noble instruments into demons of society.
If we trace the history of bandhs it will clearly lead us to the pre-indep time “Non cooperation movement. It was a movement instrument used by freedom seekers to grab the attention of the Imperialist govt without causing any non-required disturbances to society or common man. It further evolved into a full fledged branch so as to strike at Imperialist Govt’s financial arm and also demonstrate the solidarity of everybody behind the cause. The common man was the driving force and a volunteer participant to it.
After independence during the political restructuring process bandh was an effective tool used by various political parties to show the solidarity and volunteer participation of society in their cause. The political parties used to call to bandh , the society used to support it voluntarily in a very peaceful manner. These bandhs were called for to gain the attention of govt and then get their concern or issues conveyed to Govt through absolutely peaceful process. In the present day a “bandh” is called for (“Sponsored”) by a political party for a cause but with only a sole aim of showing strength. It is usually supported or better “enforced” by gangs of musclemen.
These bandhs besides causing the personal agony to many causes huge financial losses and also non financial losses like closure of schools, colleges, hospitals etc. The affected people are mostly neutral towards the govt and the party calling for the bandh. The bandhs of today cause great nuisance to society and are called for by various political parties or underground groups only to show their stern. The common man or society although is greatly affected by a bandh mostly remains neutral which makes a bandh soulless and ineffective. It does not grab the affection of the establishment as there is seldom volunteer participation by a common man en-masse besides increase in duly of security for to prevent damage to public property and smooth flow of supplies and necessities.
With presence of so many political parties and underground groups sponsoring enforcing a bandh against the wishes of a common man every other day, It has deprived this once very noble, powerful and effective peaceful political instrument of its sheen. The bandhs today have become a huge problem themselves unlike earlier times when it used to be a cause or way to the solution of a political or social problem.
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Every present day prevalent demon in our society will usually find its origin or roots in a very established instrument of society like dowry, caste system, bandhs, violent protests and prevalent socio- political system. The story of problems society faced today due to these ills was not always like this. These were very noble instruments or systems evolved for betterment of society and individuals. With advancement of time, erosion of social values, education, awareness and biggest ever increasing greed for power and money has converted these noble instruments into demons of society.
If we trace the history of bandhs it will clearly lead us to the pre-indep time “Non cooperation movement. It was a movement instrument used by freedom seekers to grab the attention of the Imperialist govt without causing any non-required disturbances to society or common man. It further evolved into a full fledged branch so as to strike at Imperialist Govt’s financial arm and also demonstrate the solidarity of everybody behind the cause. The common man was the driving force and a volunteer participant to it.
After independence during the political restructuring process bandh was an effective tool used by various political parties to show the solidarity and volunteer participation of society in their cause. The political parties used to call to bandh , the society used to support it voluntarily in a very peaceful manner. These bandhs were called for to gain the attention of govt and then get their concern or issues conveyed to Govt through absolutely peaceful process. In the present day a “bandh” is called for (“Sponsored”) by a political party for a cause but with only a sole aim of showing strength. It is usually supported or better “enforced” by gangs of musclemen.
These bandhs besides causing the personal agony to many causes huge financial losses and also non financial losses like closure of schools, colleges, hospitals etc. The affected people are mostly neutral towards the govt and the party calling for the bandh. The bandhs of today cause great nuisance to society and are called for by various political parties or underground groups only to show their stern. The common man or society although is greatly affected by a bandh mostly remains neutral which makes a bandh soulless and ineffective. It does not grab the affection of the establishment as there is seldom volunteer participation by a common man en-masse besides increase in duly of security for to prevent damage to public property and smooth flow of supplies and necessities.
With presence of so many political parties and underground groups sponsoring enforcing a bandh against the wishes of a common man every other day, It has deprived this once very noble, powerful and effective peaceful political instrument of its sheen. The bandhs today have become a huge problem themselves unlike earlier times when it used to be a cause or way to the solution of a political or social problem.
Source: http://www.thesangaiexpress.com/
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