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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...

Matriculation exam topper arrested for Naxal activity in Bihar


NK SINGH

Naxalites have reached Patna with their Mao-cult slogans on walls and a few hand bombs in halls.

All the walls of the town are full of Naxalite slogans.

Some weeks ago, they hurled bombs to disrupt a ‘save democracy convention’ called by right wing political parties. It was the first Naxalite action in Patna.

After five days the police arrested seven students. They were pasting posters on walls to celebrate May Day. The president of Patna unit of Vidyarthi Parishad, Tiwari, was thrashed when, along with some of his friends, he tried to stop them.

One  of the arrested students had secured highest marks in the Secondary Examination held last year, i.e. he is the topper of Bihar.

Naxalites also hurled crackers on the Gandhi Darshan train, which had not received such treatment anywhere else.

Soon enough they bombed the house of the Principal of Patna Commerce College, who had helped in their arrest.

Excerpts from Radical 5 September 1970

Radical 5 September 1970



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