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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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Bomb attack on anti-Maoist rally at Patna

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Representational image courtesy Foreign Policy
 

NK SINGH

Bomb attack on anti-Maoist rally at Patna on 7 August 1970 kills one, injures nine.

In retaliation, Vidyarthi Parishad attacks Muslim shops, burns one, loots three.

CPI(ML) takes responsibility for bomb attack.

Earlier, they had bombed Gandhi Darshan train at Patna, attacked a rightist convention at Patna on 25 April 1970 and assault RSS student leader on April 30 1970. They also hurled bombs on the house of the Principal of Patna Commerce College.

Police have arrested some students in the Commerce College case. One of the arrested Naxalite students had topped the secondary school examination in 1969. 

Excerpts from Frontier 29 August 1970

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