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Picketing vs Gherao - What's the difference?

picketing | gherao |

As verbs the difference between picketing and gherao

is that picketing is present participle of lang=en while gherao is to surround for this purpose.

As nouns the difference between picketing and gherao

is that picketing is the act of one who pickets (in any sense) while gherao is a protest in which a group of people surrounds a politician, building, etc. until demands are met.

picketing

English

(wikipedia picketing)

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who pickets (in any sense).
    • picketings and demonstrations

    gherao

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia gherao) (en-noun)
  • (India) A protest in which a group of people surrounds a politician, building, etc. until demands are met.
  • * 2002 , Bharti Kirchner, Darjeeling , St. Martin's Press (2002), ISBN 0312286422, page 26:
    • They had done a gherao and trapped the manager in his office for a whole day.
  • * 2007 , Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy , Macmillan (2007), ISBN 9780330396110, page 425:
    • This was an invitation to strike: according to one estimate, there were more than 1,200 gheraos in the first six months of the first UF-LF government.
  • * 2011 , Arun Sinha, Nitish Kumar and the Rise of Bihar , Viking (2011), ISBN 9780670084593, page 40:
    • They led us in a mob to the administrative office of the Patna University, blockaded the main entrance and besieged the vice chancellor's office in a gherao

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (India) To surround for this purpose.
  • * 1996 , Kavery Nambisan, The Scent of Pepper , Penguin (2010), ISBN 9780140264432, page 215:
    • One day the city magistrate asked the army for help to curb a protest march by women Congress workers who had threatened to gherao the officials in the divisional office.
  • * 2006 , Shakuntala Devi, Employment of Labour and Rural Development , Sarup & Sons (2006), ISBN 8176257168, page 53:
    • In reply, the cultivators, apparently now protesting under the banner of the BKU gheraoed the power station.
  • * 2010 , B. G. Verghese, First Draft: Witness to the Making of Modern India , Tranquebar Press (2010), ISBN 9789380283760, unnumbered page:
    • Further incensed by the findings of two Citizen's Inquiry Committees that he had set up to probe the earlier police firings in Gaya and Patna, JP now announced a programme that involved picketing the Assembly, gheraoing the residences of MLAs,