{"id":43053,"date":"2022-03-30T21:37:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T12:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/mar\/30\/india-national-strike-protests-modi"},"modified":"2022-03-30T21:37:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T12:37:17","slug":"low-turnout-for-indias-national-two-day-strike-as-50-million-join-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43053","title":{"rendered":"Low turnout for India\u2019s national two-day strike as 50 million join protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unions say strike over \u2018anti-worker\u2019 government policies a success despite limited impact, with far fewer than predicted taking part<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 50 million people joined India\u2019s two-day national strike this week, a fraction of the number expected to protest.<\/p>\n<p>Bank, factory and public transport workers disrupted services in six states on Monday and Tuesday, but the strike had limited impact across the rest of the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/mar\/30\/india-national-strike-protests-modi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unions say strike over \u2018anti-worker\u2019 government policies a success despite limited impact, with far fewer than predicted taking partAn estimated 50 million people joined India\u2019s two-day national strike this week, a fraction of the number expected to pr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[847,59,62,1203,433,79,61,1654,2428,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-global-development","category-india","category-inequality","category-narendra-modi","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-unemployment","category-workers-rights","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43054,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43053\/revisions\/43054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}