Report | Frequent hartals highlighting the devastating consequences in our daily life.

Staff Correspondent: A seminar on the culture of hartal should be ended was held a Dhaka National Press club yesterday. The organization called ‘Shushil Samaj’ arranged it, almost all participators harshly criticized hartal remarking that it is harmful for the economic progress of the country. They said that frequent hartals generally disrupt the normal life. Moreover, the poor suffers more during the hartal as they lose their income. It is generally believed that frequent hartal not only disrupt normal life, they also have a negative effect on the poor income earners of the city like the rickshaw pullers, day laborers, slum dwellers etc. During the hartal, they can’t go to their work. So they don’t earn money. Both major political parties have the financial resources and the country wide organization needed to employ outside workers. Both can afford to hire tokais, armed cedres or poor slum dwellers to ensure a good turnout at their programs. On hartal day laborers are worked for economic interest and sometimes they are victim of this politic. While the negative economic consequences of hartal draw a great deal of attention, its social consequences should not be overlooked, said the civil society.