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Violence marks shutdown in India
NEW DELHI. Nov 29 : Sporadic violence erupted in Marxist strongholds today as millions joined a 24-hour industrial shutdown across India to protest the government's economic liberalisation, reports and labour leaders said, reports AFP.
Strikers lobbed bombs and attacked non-strtkers with stones in West Bengal,, as the
walkout sponsored by communists crippled industries and banks across the country, news reports here said.
The Press Trust of India (PT1) reported violent clashes in at least four places in Calcutta when strikers tried to prevent the loyalists from Joining work It was not clear whether anyone was Injured in the violence.
In the southern state of Kerala, another leftist bastion, police Bred in the air to disperse a violent mob of strikers near Trivandrum city, PH said.
"It is a massive strike." trade union leader Homi Daji said here. "It exposes govern ment claims that there is a consensus on the industrial policy. The working class has From Page 1 Col. 4 given a fitting reply, and it is only the beginning." Daji, a communist, said "millions" had joined the work stoppage.
The strike has the backing of communists, but is not being supported by unions affiliated to the ruling Congress (1) Party and the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP, Indian People's Parly).
Daji said at least 150 workers were arrested in BJP-ruled Bhopal central India. PTI said nearly 2,200 people were detained late Thursday in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
In New Delhi, leftist and several centrist MPs walked out of Parliament after the Speaker refused a discussion of the Industrial shutdown.
On Thursday, P R Kumara manga! am. Parliamentary Affairs Minister, described the strike as "politically motivated" and said • certain sections wanted to make political capital out of the strike by misinterpreting government policies."
Communist parties hit back with accusations that the government was sacrificing India's interests by surrendering its "economic sovereignty" to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank.
Since coming to power in June, P V.Narasimha Rao's government has embarked on a policy of sweeping economic liberalisation to open up it* regimented economy. The reforms have won laurels from such international lending agencies as the IMF.
There was no official comment op the industrial shut down, called by six national trade unions and their affiliates to protest the economic policies of Rao's five-month-old minority government.
The walkout Is aimed mainly at government plans to divest itself of 98 public sector units Identified as chronically ailing, creating worries of layoffs at a time of soaring unemployment and inflation.
It is the biggest industrial strike to hit India since 1978.
Labour leaders had ^nid more than 10 million employees tn factories and public sector enterprises would take part 1n the strike, which the government estimates will cost 115 million dollars in. production losses.
PTI said all road, rail and air transport came to a halt in West Bengal stranding thousands of passengers.
Schools and colleges were also closed in West Bengal and the neighbouring opposition-ruled Bihar stale.
Buses and scoolcr-taxjs went off the roads in Wcs't Bengal and Bihar while some government buses operated with police escort in the southern state of Kerala, where taxis and private buses however took a day off.
But 80 per cent of the staff turned up for work at the port of Kochi in Kerala, PTI said.
Hundreds of factories were shut in the Indian capital and In neighbouring towns.
The strike was expected to seriously hit banks and insur-
ance, coal and steel companies, almost all of which arc government-owned, and affect railways, airlines and road transport in varying degrees.
Indian Airlines cancelled 40 per cent of its domestic flights, but a spokesman said the carrier was operating all international routes and working on "certain contingency plans." He did not elaborate.
In Bombay, senior officers were staffing the airlinck counters al the airport after the ground staff walked oul.