“In most cases, the organisations calling the bandhs do not have popular support. But the problem is that since no citizen wants to take the risk of venturing out on a bandh day, the orgainsers claim that the bandh was spontaneous and had overwhelming support of the people,” Sarma added.
Assam in fact has been suffering terribly from this bandh culture, with some independent studies saying there are, on an average 75 bandhs in the state annually. Assam suffered losses of about Rs 950 crore in 2001-02 to nearly Rs 1500 crore in 2004-05, revealed a study by the Federation of Industry & Commerce of Northeastern region (FINER).
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