Hartal is a flagrant abuse of political right

In politics, difference of opinion is a reality, but it should be expressed through political etiquette, not through hartal. The fact that needs to be understood is that the State, society and its mores are completely incumbent on the politicians. Therefore, any political action must have acceptability of the people. Unfortunately, over the last decade, our oppositions have been breaching the democratic norms by forcing the people to accede to the hartal culture.

Some people hark back to the fifties and sixties to justify hartal. This realisation seems to be politically motivated, as today's frisson of time can not be matched with that of the fifties and sixties. Period is of high essence in political development. And politicians who fail to recognise the echo of time cannot deliver any good to the country, rather they drag it back to a morass little by little.

Hartal is such a destructive mechanism to belittle the standard of the country. It cripples the foundation of economy without keeping any scope to resuscitate it. It makes uncertain the security of life, stability of society and development of the country. And so, it deserves to be abandoned.

The traditional trend of announcing hartal on Thursdays or Saturdays demonstrates a selfish mentality. It compels us to believe that those who call hartal do not do so out of political rivalry, but out of intentional political whims. How the political parties can remain apathetic about people's feeling, student's exam schedule, traders' transportation scheme of goods, or the loss of governmental revenue, is beyond my knowledge. If politics is for bringing welfare for the common people, hartal is definitely not the means.