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24 feared dead as bridge falls

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NK SINGH Bhopal: Over two dozen labourers, including women and children, were feared buried alive when a 40-foot span of a bridge under construction on a busy thoroughfare here collapsed on Monday. Special army and fire brigade rescue teams. helped by local volunteers, had rescued about six persons, including the construction contractor. from the debris by late night. Except the contractor, all of them are in a bad shape. The authorities were unable to say anything about the fate of the persons buried under the debris. It is feared that most of them were killed. Removing the debris was proving an uphill task although cranes were pressed into service. A crowd of over 5,000 persons had assembled around the collapsed bridge by late night. March 4, 1985 Indian Express
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Once upon a time a political party called SSP had pan-India presence

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SSP President Karpoori Thakur. Pic courtesy Rediff

NK SINGH

Sonepur – the very place marks all the difference between the SSP and other political parties whose conferences were held at Ahmedabad, Bombay and Patna. Sonepur is a small village on the side of the Ganga facing Patna while Ahmedabad, Bombay and Patna are…you know.

Acute crisis in the name of ideology has been brewing in the Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) since the death of Dr Ram Manohar Lohia three years ago.

As long as he dominated the party, none dared challenge his leadership. But its highly individualistic leadership is now finding it difficult to replace Lohia while the question of collective responsibility is yet to be settled.

The Sonepur national convention of SSP held at Sonepur condemned the CPM Government in West Bengal for its failure to maintain law and order, its stand over Congress split is somewhat like the CPM. “The present split in the Congress has no ideological basis,” notes SSP’s political resolution.

In 1967 assembly election SSP had won 67 seats in Bihar, 44 in UP, 19 in Kerala, 10 in MP, 8 in Rajasthan, 7 in West Bengal, 6 in Karnataka, 4 each in Maharashtra, Assam and Manipur, 2 each in Orissa and Tamil Nadu and 1 seat in Punjab.

The SSP had also increased its tally from 6 to 23 in the Lok Sabha in 1967 election.  (For details, see chart in the article, reproduced below.) 

Excerpts from Frontier 24 January 1970


NK Singh’s report on Samyukta Socialist Party’s Sonepur convention in 1970, published in Frontier of 24 January 1970. P1

NK Singh’s report on Samyukta Socialist Party’s Sonepur convention in 1970, published in Frontier of 24 January 1970. P2

NK Singh’s report on Samyukta Socialist Party’s Sonepur convention in 1970, published in Frontier of 24 January 1970. P3

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