Word: morarji
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Another mob fought its way into the secretariat building of the Bombay Provincial government, shouted down Bombay Chief Minister Morarji Desai and smashed up automobiles in the secretariat courtyard before police dispelled them with rifles, tear gas and lathis (steel-tipped poles). Some 200,000 Bombay factory workers went on strike and all colleges and schools closed. In Bombay streets scores of automobiles had ripped tires, and stones were hurled at passing streetcars and trains. Hundreds of people were forced to remove their neckties "to show respect for the satyagrahis." Bombay Education Minister Dinkarrao Desai, caught...