EXPRESSING SOLIDARITY: Shops remain closed at the Kothavalchavadi market in Chennai on Friday.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi has called for a 12-hour strike in Chennai(Tamilnadu Capital) on Thursday.
Late on Tuesday night, Karunanidhi issued a final appeal and asked all Tamils, irrespective of their political affiliations, to join the strike.He justified his decision saying that besides asking the Centre to demand a permanent ceasefire, the strike was also for sympathising with the plight of Tamils in Srilanka.
No violent incident has been reported . I had gone to play this morning in Nungumbakkam ground and everything seemed normal . Only few shops where open ...
Today was declared a holiday for most of the software industries ,instead Saturday will be considered working ....
There was lukewarm response to the State-wide bandh call given by the Tamilnadu Vanigar Sangangkalin Peravai in support of Sri Lankan Tamils.The traders’ demand included immediate ceasefire in Sri Lanka and distribution of relief materials to Tamils in the island nation through a United Nations agency.
Shopowners owing allegiance to the Peravai put up the shutters while those affiliated to the Tamil Nadu Chamber of Commerce and Industry kept off the bandh.
In Chennai nearly 75 per cent of the shops were closed and in districts the closure was partial with more than 50 per cent of the shop keepers not participating.
Wholesale and retail vegetable merchants at the Koyembedu market here participated in the stir and refused to offload vegetables from lorries that arrived from different parts of the country.
This affected availability of vegetables in the city.
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