"The tickets for the match have already been distributed and sold out. You're therefore requested to postpone the 24-hour strike call so that it does not hamper the scheduled IPL match," CAB treasurer Biswarup Dey wrote in a letter to Left Front chairman Biman Bose.
CITU, INTUC and six Left-backed trade unions today jointly called a 24-hour general strike in West Bengal on April 30 to protest against alleged violence in the just-concluded civic polls in the state.