Rising Food Prices Spark Protests in India
We're not even two full months into the new year, and protest has already become a prominent theme for 2011 in multiple nations Add India to that growing list, as climbing food costs, combined with diminished employment opportunities, drove thousands .
We’re not even two full months into the new year, and protest has already become a prominent theme for 2011 in multiple nations. Add India to that growing list, as climbing food costs, combined with diminished employment opportunities, drove thousands of demonstrators to take to the streets of Delhi on Wednesday. –KA
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The protest has been organised by major trade unions, including the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) and the Centre for Industrial Trade Union (CITU).
The Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) — which is backed by the governing Congress party — is also supporting the strike saying it wants to remind the government about its commitments to the poor.
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