Public nuisance on roads

Granted that protest is an integral part of a democracy and any person living in a democratic system of government has had the right to voice his protest if he feels that those in the saddle have done something which is illegal or against the constitution. There are, however, civilised methods of lodging protests. Unfortunately, in this part of the world where we dwell, resort to blockades of roads and public highways are made by the protesters in order to highlight their grievances against the government with the result that the general public is put to a lot of inconvenience . Their daily chores are badly affected . The old and the infirm requiring immediate medical attention cannot reach hospital in time and most of them are stranded in traffic jams created by the road blocks for hours together. In the same manner, the daily wage earners are deprived of their daily earning as they cannot reach the destinations where they have to report for manual labour as a result of which they don’t have enough money in their pockets taking home to . Their children , obviously, have to sleep hungry for want of food on the day they are deprived of their labour.
Whosoever had introduced this culture of road blocks for pressurising the government was certainly no friend of the common man.
Why don’t the leaders of all political parties join heads and evolve a joint code of ethics for spotlighting their problems in case they don’t want to bring them to the fore in parliament which should have been the proper forum for the purpose. They can select open spaces in every city for holding their public meetings so that their political activity does not obstruct the daily humdrum of the common man. They can buy air time on the umpteen TV channels for the purpose. They should also confine their speeches to the issues and avoid character assassination of one another. They should ban display of prohibited bore arms in their public meetings. Surely, by adopting such methods they can keep our roads clean of the public nuisance created by the political rallies.