India is a democratic country which allows us the freedom to protest.It is a means for showing our disapproval against any government decision which we think or believe wrong or unjust.In India protests are held mostly as strikes,hartals,bandhs etc.Most of these ideas emanated from our Great Leader Mahatma Gandhi.He practised these ideas through the path of Ahimsa or non-violence.He regarded them as crusades to serve India suffering the oppression of the British empirialist power .
But nowadays strikes,bandhs and hartals often become a curse for people.Now the protest has become synonymous with violence and mass destruction of public & private properties.They cause great losses amounting to crores of rupees for the government which is the common man's sweat.Moreover shops and offices are destroyed plunging several poor people's lives to uncertainity.We must note that protests are carried out in foreign countries especially developed countries without damaging a single thing.
Pubic properties such as K S R T C buses,police jeeps,vans,offices etc are sabotaged by protestors.They don't have the right to ruin the property which belongs to the people.Those who frantically follow the way of destruction should remember that destruction is not a remedy but a loss.Mahatma Gandhi succeeded in gaining India's Independence through the path of non - violence.The more painful truth is that those who are responsible to serve, protect the rights of people are involved in these deeds & they instigate violence.In 1984 a bill was passed in Parliament against the destruction of property during protests.Unfortunately it is not put into act till date.The fact is that whenever there is a strike or hartal poor people are the sole sufferers.Protests should be for the people not against people.
