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A hartal is a mass protest, often involving a total shutdown of workplaces, offices, shops, and courts of law, and a form of civil disobedience similar to a labour strike. In addition to being a general strike , it involves the voluntary closure of schools and places of business.
Hartal called by Reason Casualties and damage Notes 1962 – 1971: 15 [1] then East Pakistan: 1972 – 1975: 5 [1] 1981 – 1987: 59 [1] 1991 – 1996: 266 [1] Awami League, called for hartal of unknown number of days: 1996 – 2001: 215 [1] BNP, called for 59-day hartal [2] 2001 – 2007: Unknown: Bangladesh Awami League, called for 173-day ...
The House Tax Hartal of 1810–11 was an occasion of nonviolent resistance to protest a tax in parts of British India, with a particularly noteworthy example of hartal (a form of general strike) in the vicinity of Varanasi.
The Hartal 1953 (Sinhala: 1953 වර්ජනය, romanized: Varjanaya) was a country-wide demonstration of civil disobedience and strike, commonly known as a hartal, held in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) on 12 August 1953.
Hartal Doktor Kontrak (HDK) was a nationwide workers' strike organised by medical officers in Malaysia on 26 July 2021 in protest against the government's contract system in appointing medical officers which was implemented at the end of 2016.
They observed hartal on 1 February 1962 and continuing their movement by performing meetings. On 7 February of that month the government placed a field canon to intimidate the movement in Dhaka. On 17 September 1962, students declared a hartal. In that day demonstrations took place in Dhaka.
The Supreme Court of India banned bandhs in 1998, [4] but political parties still organize them. In 2004, the Supreme Court of India fined two political parties, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shiv Sena, for organizing a bandh in Mumbai as a protest against bomb blasts in the city. [4]
The 1967 Penang Hartal riot (Malay: Hartal Pulau Pinang 1967) happened on November 24, 1967 in response to the devaluation of the Malayan dollar against the British pound sterling and the newly established Malaysian dollar.