In Punjab alone, people gathered at greater than 500 areas to precise their help to the bandh. Numerous non-farmer associations also stood in solidarity with farmers, it said. Amid protests throughout the nation, the federal government today moved a invoice within the Lok Sabha that seeks to plug tax evasion after the notes ban which has been disrupted by the opposition because the winter session started final week. The Opposition events also demanded an apology from Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remarks in opposition to the Opposition. Protesters extending their help for Bharat Bandh in Chennai’s Anna Salai area had been detained by Police on Monday.
Modi said corruption and black money have ruined India, and the nation should now become free from all such evils. People have been reeling underneath extreme forex crunch and are punished to face in long serpentine queues. In a bid to curb the black cash menace, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the eve of November eight announced the scrapping of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes.
In AP, the YSR Congress authorities lent support to the bandh and suspended RTC bus providers and declared holiday for schools on Monday. TSRTC buses, cab services, auto-rickshaw and different transport providers were plying on the street as usual. However, the movement of people was curtailed largely as a end result of incessant downpour due to the Gulab cyclone within the Bay of Bengal. Markets and shops were opened as usual, while public transport operated almost normally, except for a quantity of hitches. Assam remained unaffected by the Bharat Bandh as public transport operated as traditional, markets have been open and places of work registered traditional attendance.
Several organisations in Karnataka on Monday carried out a rally from Bengaluru Town Hall space to Mysore bank circle to observe Bharat Bandh. BSP, Congress, and Trinamool Congress were among the many protesters current outdoors cross legged reference the Parliament. Police briefly detained round sixty two workers, including state Congress spokesperson Manish Doshi and eleven women, before releasing them all.
Schools and colleges are closed and no public transport autos are seen on highways. The district has also seen about six to eight mms of rain per hour all through the day on Monday, causing a big barrier to movement of people and automobiles. United Opposition consisting of major political events like Congress, Trinamool Congress, and the BSP have given a call for nationwide Bharat Bandh to escalate their protest over the demonetisation drive of the union authorities. The opposition events have been disrupting the proceedings in both Houses of Parliament during this ongoing Winter session protesting in opposition to the government’s demonetisation drive. The nationwide strike is predicted to disrupt the functioning of every thing except the bare important providers.
The hartal that was announced in response to a call for a nationwide bandh by Samyukt Kisan Morcha has remained peaceful with no untoward incident being reported from any part of the district thus far. RJD and Congress employees blocked roads in Patna, Bhojpur, Lakhisarai, Jahanabad, East Champaran, Begusarai, Madhepura and Nalanda districts, affecting the motion of the site visitors. In Guwahati, members of the SUCI took out a protest rally in the morning, raising slogans towards the three farm laws.
Earlier in the day, a united opposition attacked the Centre in Parliament over poor implementation of demonetisation. Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh led the opposition attack on government in Rajya Sabha, terming demonetisation a “monumental management failure” which would lead to dip in GDP development by at least 2 per cent. TheCongress has asked its staff, state unit chiefs and heads of frontal organisations to participate within the’Bharat Bandh’ called by farmer unions to protest towards the Centre’s three agri laws. Expressing assist for protesting farmers, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Monday mentioned the farmers’ non-violent ‘satyagraha’ is still resolute but the “exploitative” authorities does not like this and that’s the reason a ‘Bharat Bandh’ has been called. Normal life was as traditional with the public transport system operating as usual.
