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Resentment against hike in bus fare mounting in Bhopal

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NK SINGH Though a Govt. directive has frustrated the earlier efforts of the MPSRTC to increase the city bus fares by as much as 300 per cent, the public resent even the 25 per cent hike. It is "totally unjust, uncalled for and arbitrary", this is the consensus that has emerged from an opinion conducted by "Commoner" among a cross-section of politicians, public men, trade union leaders, and last but not least, the common bus travelling public. However, a section of the people held, that an average passenger would not grudge a slight pinche in his pocket provided the MPSRTC toned up its services. But far from being satisfactory, the MPSRTC-run city bus service in the capital is an endless tale of woe. Hours of long waiting, over-crowding people clinging to window panes frequent breakdowns, age-old fleet of buses, unimaginative routes and the attitude of passengers one can be patient only when he is sure to get into the next bus are some of the ills plaguing the city b...
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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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