Ponnappa Pran
Ponnappa Pran

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1- Remember:Aditya Birla was dragged out of his car between GPO & RBI, off Writers Building, thrashed, clothes torn, stripped down to his undergarments & made to walk like that to his office- India Exchange Place with a crowd
roaring in laughter & jeering.
2-He went home and took a flight to Bombay, never to return. So did JK
Thapar, most entrepreneurs & MNCs, Professionals , intellectuals
artists. That's what communists wanted.Those who had
nowhere to go were threatened by goons & movements like Amra Bangali to keep silent.
3-That become political culture of WB. Thereafter all political
parties kept following same & unfortunately will keep doing so because its best way to remain in power is not to permit empowerment. Bengalis r
strangely watching silently for 55 yrs now
WB never the same?
Lockout, layoff & gherao. Industrial dereliction and labour unrest became West Bengal's template ever since the 1960s and continue to haunt the state. For a people with a liberal core, the state struggles on, its breadth now threatened.
indiatoday.in

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