| In defiance of their trade unions, the workers were striking for improved working conditions and the release of a co-worker arrested for campaigning for a hartal. |
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| Jamaat, a BNP ally, has also been ruled ineligible to fight the election. The issue that provoked the hartal was another move by the government seen as tilting the electoral playing field. |
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| Knowing the hartal would bring not just disruption but violence and death, the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, deigned to telephone her nemesis to ask her to call it off. |
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| A countrywide popular demonstration against withdrawal of the rice ration, known as Hartal 1953, resulted in the resignation of prime minister Dudley Senanayake. |
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