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gherao

(ɡɛˈraʊ)
n
(Industrial Relations & HR Terms) (in India) a form of industrial action in which workers imprison their employers on the premises until their demands are met
[from Hindi gherna to besiege]
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Summary: New Delhi [India], Aug 17 (ANI): The SC-ST wing of the Aam Aadmi Party have planned a "gherao" of the BJP office here on Sunday to protest the demolition of the Sant Ravidas Temple in Tughlakabad.
Monday's gherao or encirclement of Dhaka University Vice-chancellor's office to press a six-point charter of demands forebodes possible campus movement troubling the DUCSU-election environment, observers say.
They said from now on the would also boycott polio campaign as also would gherao chief minister house.
The labor union has warned if the pension is not paid within a week then they will be forced to gherao DG besides observing pen down strike.
PKB Senior Vice-Chairman Jam Hazoor Baksh said farmers from Cholistan and other areas would launch gherao of the irrigation offices in case the water was not released.
Meanwhile, following the Secretariat Gherao call given by Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL), scores of pro-freedom leaders were detained by the authorities after they tried to march towards Secretariat.
He added that the people of Karachi are educated and cultured, this is why they have rejected those who had destroyed the peace of this city, polluted politics with terrorism, jalao gherao, hatred just to establish their sway,' he said and went on saying 'now we have cleared the dark clouds from the horizon of this city, now this city belongs to each and every one who lives here and works here and we have to make city `city of peace and tranquility,' he said.
It is a serious problem to all nations as strikes, sabotage, robbery, violence, arson, murder, suicide, criticisms, intimidation, tormentation, humiliation, hatred gherao and other forms of aggressive behaviour have become a common feature these day.
Ironically, the participation of university students in collective protest activities such as gherao, essentially meant to challenge authoritarianism and high power distances in Indian academia, also fuels individualism in the classroom, generating cultural tensions in the pedagogical landscape.
While Odisha's ruling Biju Janata Dal staged a demonstration near Raj Bhawan, blaming the Central government for not hiking Minimum Support Price on paddy, the BJP resorted to 'Secretariat gherao' for delay in disbursing agriculture input subsidy to the farmers, whose crops were damaged due to unseasonal rain.
On Tuesday the plan was to lockdown all government offices followed by gherao of legislators and ministers' offices on Wednesday.
The supporters also marched towards Mulayam's house, which is adjacent to SP headquarters, in an apparent bid to ' gherao' his house.