Who benefits from bandhs?
Bandh is a sudden, usually unplanned, stoppage of life in large cities – especially in West Bengal. The sufferers are long distances passengers who are coming into the city by train. The trains are stopped at in-between stations where basic facilities are at times not available. Those who take flights get stranded at the airport with no means of conveyances unless one’s own car or a friend’s car or the company car comes to pick him up. The suddenly called bandh in West Bengal on Friday did lift the sagging spirits of the Congress party in West Bengal but the common man certainly was not happy. Apart from destruction of public property in the form of buses and vehicles, it served no other purpose – of course, an extra day minus work was welcome by some
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