Compensating hartal victims
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BNP has called country-wide dawn to dusk hartal which is being observed in the country for the last two days continuously. Hartal may be a democratic right. But why inflict damage to the economy or increase misery in the lives and properties of the people? Why burn buses and vehicles, kill people by burning, damaging properties by vandalism in the name of hartal? It cannot be democratic rights of any group or people. Destroying properties of the citizens to create panic among people in the night before hartal also does not fall under the democratic rights. This democratic right of calling hartal cannot be stopped by making a law but vandalism and destruction of lives and properties in the name of hartal can be stopped by making a law. I, therefore, suggest that the government should pass a law in the parliament compelling the hartal callers to pay compensation for the damages done by their goons.
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