rokon.
/ˈrəʊkəʊ/, U.S. /ˈroʊkoʊ/ In India: a protest in which road or rail traffic is disrupted by a large group of demonstrators. With modifying word indicating the type of transportation targeted. Cf. rasta roko n.
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1980 Hindu (Madras) 17 Nov. 1/2 Barring this, there would be no ‘rail roko’ agitation and the Shetkari Sanghatana would not..attempt to block the railways.
1988 S. Rushdie Satanic Verses i. iv. 75 A Bombay ‘rail roko’ demonstration was being broken up by police lathi-charges.
1999 Enron Corporation (Human Rights Watch) v. 60 We were not arrested even though we staged a road roko..with 400 people.
2008 United News of India (Nexis) 7 Nov. As many as 58 volunteers..were arrested when they held a rail roko here.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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