among the traders, petty shopkeepers, panwallahs, and thela wallahs whose participation in the agitation was low were actually forced to close their shops because they ran out of stocks. Meanwhile a number of trade unions and a section of the students publicly came out against the hartal. All this led to a division among the leadership over the direction the agitation should take.
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