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	Owing to its popularity, the word “gherao” was added to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary in 2004. Page 598 has the entry: “Gherao: n (pl. gheraos). Indian; a protest in which workers prevent employers leaving a place of work until demands are met; Origin: From Hindi” and Subodh Banerjee was referred to as the ''Gherao minister''.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article263.html\|title=A Defiant Rebel - Mainstream Weekly\|website=www.mainstreamweekly.net}}</ref>		Owing to its popularity, the word “gherao” was added to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary in 2004. Page 598 has the entry: “Gherao: n (pl. gheraos). Indian; a protest in which workers prevent employers leaving a place of work until demands are met; Origin: From Hindi” and Subodh Banerjee was referred to as the ''Gherao minister''.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article263.html\|title=A Defiant Rebel - Mainstream Weekly\|website=www.mainstreamweekly.net}}</ref>

	Gherao is being used by farmers against government buildings during the ongoing [[2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest~~\|2020 Indian farmer protests~~]].<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Talwar\|first=Gaurav\|date=8 December 2020\|title=Farm protests: AAP holds protest march to gherao CM's office, stopped by police {{!}} Dehradun News - Times of India\|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/dehradun/farm-protests-aap-holds-protest-march-to-gherao-cms-office-stopped-by-police/articleshow/79612372.cms\|url-status=live\|archive-url=\|archive-date=\|access-date=22 December 2020\|website=The Times of India\|language=en}}</ref>		Gherao is being used by farmers against government buildings during the ongoing [[2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest]].<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Talwar\|first=Gaurav\|date=8 December 2020\|title=Farm protests: AAP holds protest march to gherao CM's office, stopped by police {{!}} Dehradun News - Times of India\|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/dehradun/farm-protests-aap-holds-protest-march-to-gherao-cms-office-stopped-by-police/articleshow/79612372.cms\|url-status=live\|archive-url=\|archive-date=\|access-date=22 December 2020\|website=The Times of India\|language=en}}</ref>

	==See also==		==See also==

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'''Gherao''', meaning "encirclement", is a word which denotes a tactic used by labour activists and union leaders in India; it is similar to [[picketing]]. Usually, a group of people would surround a politician or a government building until their demands are met, or answers given. This principle was introduced as a formal means of protest in the labour sector by [[Subodh Banerjee]], the PWD and Labor Minister in the 1967 and 1969 United Front Governments of [[West Bengal]], respectively.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N7QI4eOM18cC&q=Subodh+Banarjee,+west+bengal&pg=PA28|title=West Bengal's Jyoti Basu: A Political Profile Page 27|first1=Surajit Kumar|last1=Dasgupta|first2=Surajit̲a|last2=Dāśagupta|date=December 19, 1992|publisher=Gian Publishing House|isbn=9788121204200|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.boloji.com/diary/kolkata/013.htm|title=Populist Governance|access-date=2009-05-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090418042211/http://www.boloji.com/diary/kolkata/013.htm|archive-date=2009-04-18|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Owing to its popularity, the word “gherao” was added to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary in 2004. Page 598 has the entry: “Gherao: n (pl. gheraos). Indian; a protest in which workers prevent employers leaving a place of work until demands are met; Origin: From Hindi” and Subodh Banerjee was referred to as the ''Gherao minister''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article263.html|title=A Defiant Rebel - Mainstream Weekly|website=www.mainstreamweekly.net}}</ref>

Gherao is being used by farmers against government buildings during the ongoing [[2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest|2020 Indian farmer protests]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Talwar|first=Gaurav|date=8 December 2020|title=Farm protests: AAP holds protest march to gherao CM's office, stopped by police {{!}} Dehradun News - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/dehradun/farm-protests-aap-holds-protest-march-to-gherao-cms-office-stopped-by-police/articleshow/79612372.cms|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=22 December 2020|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Bandh]]
*[[Bossnapping]]
*[[Lockout (industry)#Lock-in|Lock-in]]
*[[Picketing (protest)|Picketing]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Labour in India]]
[[Category:Civil disobedience]]
[[Category:Protests in India]]
[[Category:Protest tactics]]

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Gherao - Revision history

>Aotoda at 10:20, 6 September 2021

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