This morning we came to the office at 7:00, a little earlier than usual to avoid any strike activity and help work on lab audit preparations. There was practically no traffic, and much less activity on Cisco campus. Krishna Rao, the head of TAC in India with whom we had the opportunity to have lunch last week, called a meeting to address the issue of the strike. He said that if things appeared to be calming down everyone would be allowed to leave the office at 2:00. Unfortunately, since then most large cities in India have been "heating up," as per a recent update, but Bangalore has been one of the calmer cities, due to proactive police measures in establishing 35 platoons of "bandobusters" around the city. Here's a few things that have been going on around the country this morning:
- Pune, Patna, Lucknow & Varanasi top BJP leaders have been court arrested by police. These arrests are rooted to lathi charge.
- As of now all metro cities in india bandh turns to violence.
- All flights to Cochin, Mangalore & Mumbai canceled from Chennai.
- 15 Buses attacked in Pune by protesters.
- BJP Protesters rush to Bangalore and Mysore Railway stations to stop rail services.
- Flights canceled to Bangalore from Chennai.
- 04 BMTC buses have been attacked by protesters in Lokesh nagar.
- Banks, Schools, IT Offices and shops bandh in Bangalore.
- Two Buses stoned on Tumkur Road near Madanayakana Halli.
- A stray incident of quarrel between a shop owner and CPI(M) workers at Srinivaspura in Kolar Dist over forcible closing of shops. CPI(M) Worker injured.
- 35 Platoons of police deployed across Bangalore.
- Stone pelting on BMTC buses in Rajaji Nagar.
- Woman welfare associations come forward to support the bandh in Bangalore.
- BMTC and KSRTC services has been called off by Transport Minister Mr . Ashok till 06:00 PM.
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