The Yellow Jacket Movement.

The Yellow Jacket Movement.

It’s not only in India that we face surge in fuel prices, excess tax and high cost of living, the world faces it. The most evident revolt against these issues is seen in France right now. The working and the middle classes want economic justice as high prices of everything have made a huge hole in their pockets and the weight of tax have broken their backs.

“The Yellow Jacket movement” has begun in France for a better lifestyle. It initially started as a movement against rising fuel prices, a method which the government introduced to curb the lack of budget which proved to be widely unpopular. The already low approval rating of the French President went further low at the beginning of the movement. “The Yellow Jacket movement” or the “The Yellow vest movement” is called so because of the highly visible yellow jackets that all the drivers are required to have in their vehicles, by law, and wear it during emergencies. The jacket has high visibility, and is associated with the working and middle classes.

 The protest began in November 2018 after a petition that was posted online in May gained immense attention. The people of France took on the roads on November the 17^th by blocking roads and pumps in protest. Protest also began in Réunion, an oversea island region of France where troops had to be deployed four days after the protest to control the situation.

The intensity and the number of injured people have just increased. The problem still hasn’t found its way to resolution and peace (as of last update of the situation on 16^th February).