Democracy has given us the right to lodge protest against injustice and exploitation. We can go on a strike, or arrange a rally or procession. But today this right is being misused to hamper work and progress. Workers in factories and employees in offices resort to strikes so often that they have lost their meaning and even effectiveness. Long-term policies of the government are challenged by the employees by strike work. Whenever there is a move to discipline the workers, there is a strike. Whenever to face strike, dharnas, protest marches and the like. People want prosperity and growth, but dislike any rise in taxes, prices and input costs. Political parties in power do their best to suppress any form of public protest. The same parties out of power instigate people to go on strikes on flimsy grounds. People must realize that democracy cannot go on in such an atmosphere of trumped up, unjustifiable strikes and 'bundhs'.
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