Word: muzaffarnagar
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Dates: during 1977-1977
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...city of Muzaffarnagar, 70 miles north of Delhi, vasectomy camps handled between 1,200 and 1,800 cases a day. Each operation took five to ten minutes, and there was often no follow-up when the patient suffered postoperative bleeding, infection or even tetanus. The state quota for Uttar Pradesh had been set at 400,000, but the chief minister raised it to 1.5 million, presumably to please Sanjay. Some 700,000 operations were actually performed, a phenomenal increase over the previous year's total of 129,000. Villagers told bitter jokes against Mrs. Gandhi, one of them based...
Severe Defection. In Muzaffarnagar, as elsewhere, the smoldering anger inevitably turned to violence. When a tyrannical local administrator sent his police to find "volunteers," the police rounded up 17 men, of whom two were 75 and two were under 18. A crowd quickly gathered in the street and demanded that the 17 be released. The district administrator's reply: "Today I will f- their mothers." In the trouble that followed, as many as 56 people were killed...
Despite the clear signals of the bloody incident at Muzaffarnagar, the government ignored the possibility that the program was in trouble. When one citizen of the city complained to D.K. Barooah, president of the Congress Party, Barooah told him to talk to the "high command." As instructed, the citizen of Muzaffarnagar telephoned Mrs. Gandhi's office and reached her private secretary, R.K. Dhawan. Informed that the call was coming from Muzaffarnagar, he hung...
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