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AIR unaware of price hikes

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NK SINGH BHOPAL: The All India Radio authorities at Bhopal seem to be unaware of the sky-rocketing prices. To the utter dismay of the listeners, for the past few months, the prices of wheat have not been included in the food-grain price list daily broadcast by the Bhopal station of AIR. Though the Department of Economics and Statistics of the State Government supplies the wheat prices along with the prices of other commodities daily to the AIR, the latter find it more convenient to ignore them. The reason for this shut-your-eyes step is said to be the too-honest data' provided by the department. According to the figures available with the department, the prices of wheat in the 'open market' vary from Rs. 1.50 to Rs. 1.60 per kg. According to the rates fixed by the State Government -- which now controls the wheat trade right at the very beginning of the production pipe line -- it should not have crossed the Rs. 1 mark. Faced with this peculiar situation the AIR authorities w...
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Jana Sangh’s Patna session, 1969

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Jana Sangh election symbol

NK SINGH

The main outcome of the 16th session of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh was perhaps the sharpening of the Madhok-Vajpayee rift. The first indication of the controversy appeared in the working committee meeting when it failed to adopt the draft resolution on the political situation, even after eight hours of discussion, as it was sharply divided over the policy to adopted towards the Congress.

BalrajMadhok group felt that JS was neared to the Syndicate Congress and an alliance should be formed it. Atal Bihari Vajpayee group maintained that there was very little difference between the two Congresses before and after the split. The working committee had to redraft the official resolution.

The political resolution called for an all-out anti-Communist front and a determined political offensive against the Indira Gandhi government.

The economic resolution has similarities on too many points with those of the ruling Congress, organisation Congress and other parties like the PSP and SSP. Madhok said: “In our love for being called progressive, it is necessary that we should not lose our distinct identity.”

The JS called for rapid land reforms, ceiling on land holdings, ensuring the rights of tenants and share-croppers, upliftment of backward classes and so on.

Excerpts from Frontier 17 January 1970


A report on 16th session of Bharatiya Jana Sangh held at Patna in 1969, by NK Singh, published in Frontier of 17 January 1970. P1
Frontier 17 January 1970 P1

A report on 16th session of Bharatiya Jana Sangh held at Patna in 1969, by NK Singh, published in Frontier of 17 January 1970. P2
Frontier 17 January 1970 P2

A report on 16th session of Bharatiya Jana Sangh held at Patna in 1969, by NK Singh, published in Frontier of 17 January 1970. P2
Frontier 17 January 1970 P3

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