PANTNAGAR Miniature Green Revolution Society Sumanta Banerjee WHILE the March 1977 experience of ousting an authoritarian regime from power has given our people a newfound courage to assert their rights, for the ruling classes it has reinforced the need to suppress such assertion by ruthless violence. The massacre of, farm labourers at the G B Pant University of Agriculture at Pantnagar on April 13 was a sequel to the tussle between the long-suppressed grievances of the labourers seeking new outlets of protest on the one hand and the determination of the authorities to put them down by the old methods of terror on the other.
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