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Parties plan massive pickets, marches

Leftist groups clash in Bihar: 7 killed
NEW DELHI. July 27 : Seven people were killed and 10 injured when two leftist Kups clashed at a colliery in eastern Indian state of Bihar, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported Saturday, says AFP.
The agency said the fighting between supporters of the Indian People’s Front (IPF) and the Marxist Coordination Center (MCC) erupted at the Ralligarha Colliery. 58 kilometers (36 miles) from the city of Ranchi. Friday night
The two groups attacked one another with arrows, homemade bombs and other weapons when news spread that IPF men had killed an MCC supporters, and seven died on the spot before police could separate the groups, the agency «aid.
Police were camped at the Collier, where they described the atmosphere as still tense Saturday, and the injured had been hospitalised, PTI said without giving further details.
Reuter adds: India's leftwing parties said on Friday they planed a week of protests next month against government moves away of protests next against government moves away from socialist, protectionist orthodoxy, reports Reuter
Two communist parties and two allied parties, which together have 54 of the 509 current votes In the Lower House of Parliament, denounced the minority Congress government for introducing a liberal Industrial policy and an austerity budget on Wednesday.
The pro-big business, pro-landlord, pro-multinational capital policies of the government must be strongly resisted so that the government is force to desist from his course.' they said in a statement.
A spokesman said they planned pickets, marches and sit-in "and other forms of protest all over the country" from August 19, culminating in a mass rally on August 25, probably In Delhi.
The government, seeking a multi-billion dollar loan from the International Monetary Fund, has acted radically during just one month in office to ease a foreign exchange crisis.
Its moves. including a sharpy rupee devaluation, are aimed largely at saving off any default on India's 71 billion dollar foreign debt the third biggest in the developing world.
It all marks a big turnaround from the ideals of socialist self-sufficiency which India adopted in 1947. when it won Independence from Britain after centuries of colonial rule.
The industrial policy slashes red tape and allows foreign investors to take majority stakes in Joint enterprises — even tn the food processing sector, where multinational companies have In the past been made particularly unwelcome.
The budget raises transport costs. The government also plans to sell some shares tn the huge state sector and to ease closure procedures for loss-making companies.
At least 40 per cent of India's people live below the poverty line and Finance Minister Manmohan Singh has promised to try to protect them from what he warned would be at least three years of painful adjustment to a more market-oriented economy.
His budget raised corporate tax rates, increased duties on luxury goods and protected food subsidies for the poor in an effort to fend off precisely the charges levelled by the left parti eg.
Their statement said the budget would push up prices of basic goods, putting intolerable burdens on the common peo-
AP Adds : At least seven people were killed when supporter* of two radical political parties clashed in the eastern state of Bihar, a news agency said Saturday.