For once, sense or rather a sense of shame has prevailed. The Congress-led UDF has put off its call for a hartal tomorrow (Wednesday) in protest against the LDF government's `failure' to tackle the chikungunya and viral fever outbreak across the state.
First time in my memory such a thing is happening in hartal-happy Kerala. But this time the hartal announcers went way too far. Announcing it just when the state needs its entire infrastructure in running condition to help people battered by fever. Add to it heavy rain. Public and media distaste was too overpowering.
But will the hartal culture ever come to an end? The ruling Left has to change it spots for that. A mentality which goes ahead with a complete shutdown and acts of vandalism just because Saddam Hussein was executed in faraway Iraq does not help at all. The act may be worthy of condemnation, but not at the cost of the functioning of the people and the economy.
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