Word: haryana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...India's 21 states, only three enjoy a surplus of power. Eight make do, and the other ten are in serious trouble. The state of Haryana is hardest hit; it has no generating capacity of its own, and since last year has been forced to reduce its power consumption by a total of 60%. Between Feb. 1 and March 30, power was shut off completely 19 times in Haryana's Faridabad industrial township, causing layoffs of 60,000 workers at a time; layoffs in the entire state totaled 200,000. Haryana industrialists fear outbreaks of violence among unemployed...
...November 1966, after savage rioting, the Punjab was split in two, creating a predominantly Hindu Haryana state and a Sikh-dominated Punjab state. Both communities demanded exclusive possession of the capital city. Premier Indira Gandhi promised to settle the matter as soon as the 1967 elections were out of the way, and in the meantime allowed Chandigarh to remain the capital of both states...
...resolve, his attendants had collected kerosene and firewood at their holiest shrine, the Golden Temple in Amritsar. To complicate matters, a Hindu named K. K. Toofan, fasting outside Indira's residence in New Delhi, threatened a suicide of his own if Chandigarh was not turned over outright to Haryana...
Fair as the compromise seemed, it enraged both communities. Mobs in Haryana attacked railway stations and burned trains and buses; eight persons died in the rioting. Angry Sikhs hurled stones at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, where elders of the Akali Dal Party released the fasting Sant Fateh Singh from his suicide vow. "My pledge has been fulfilled," murmured the Sant, accepting a glass of orange juice from the temple's head priest. And Chandigarh, named after Chandi, the North Indian equivalent of Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, has lived up to its name...