WSN Service
NEW DELHI: India’s well-paid white collar class mainly employed in the banking and insurance sectors led a countrywide strike on November 29 to seek reversal of government’s policies of economic lib-
The call was issued by trade unions associated with national front-leftist combination. It had a big success in C.P.(M)dominated West Bengal and Kerala and Janata Dal-dominated Bihar and had varying degrees of success elsewhere in the country. Most of the public sector units were affected throughout the country.
A spokesman of the sponsoring committee, M.K.Pandey, said that 12 million workers and 35 lakh government employees responded to the call.
The response to the strike call is bound to have political impact with government and public servants as well as other employed sections moving politically away from the Narasimha Rao government (o partly neutralize the trend slightly favorable to the ruling party revealed by last months by-elections in different states.
Article extracted from this publication >> December 6, 1991
