INDIAN democracy (turning towards anarchy) takes one more life !

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Dismissed employees beat CEO to death-Delhi-Cities-The Times of India

GREATER NOIDA: In one of the worst instances of industrial violence in recent times, the MD-cum-CEO of the India unit of Italian MNC, Graziano Trasmissioni, was bludgeoned to death by a 200-strong armed mob of dismissed workers which had barged into the company premises and indulged in largescale violence. ( Watch )

According to Graziano employees, the sacked workers rushed into the premises around 12.20pm when the gates were opened to let in a car. “They smashed each one of the approximately 20 cars inside the compound. Hearing the commotion, our CEO, Lalit Kishore Chaudhary, came out to the building entrance. He was abused while trying to reason with the protesters. And, when he objected, the beat him to death with a hammer,” said production supervisor, Udaivir. ( Watch )

Chaudhary, 44, was rushed to Greater Noida’s Kailash Hospital, where doctors declared him brought dead. The violence left at least 50 executives and workers of the unit injured. Of the 44 staffers taken to hospital, 34 of them were yet to be discharged until Monday night. Of these, 10 executives of the company remained in the intensive care unit.

The bloodstained hammer, which was allegedly used to kill Chaudhary, was found lying in the premises, and had surprisingly not been seized by the police as evidence.

In the company guesthouse, visiting Italian technical consultant, Forettii Gatii, told TOI , “I just locked my room’s door from inside. And I prayed they would not break in. See, my hands are trembling even three hours later.”

Another consultant said they broke the door of his room and entered, but he just pleaded to them to spare him. For some reason, he was spared. But inside the unit, in spite of there being over 30 security guards, the remaining employees looked scared and worried.

Chaudhary is survived by wife Ratna, a lecturer at DU’s Kirori Mal College. His only son, Keshav, studies in Class XII at Modern School, Barakhamba Road. According to family circles, he will be cremated at Delhi’s Nigambodh Ghat on Tuesday morning

The unit also sustained heavy damage in the vandalism that followed. Five Italian technical consultants, who were visiting the unit, barely managed to escape injuries. Some of them had to plead with the raiders to spare them.

The unit, a 100% subsidiary of Graziano Italy, specializes in making gears and transmission systems for vehicles. It was set up in 1998 and commenced commercial production in 2000.

Shockingly, despite several Graziano officials phoning up a number of Noida police officials about the violence, only two police constables arrived at the spot after an hour. And, even at 3.30pm, as the unit’s security personnel and some other employees shut themselves up in the unit, only about half a dozen Provincial Armed Constabulary personnel were posted outside.

And, there was no officer with them. Which meant that, in case of an emergency, there was nobody there to order any action. And, this was the state of affairs with the district reserve police lines being located half a kilometre away.

Police officers were not available for comment, until 9.45pm, when area superintendent of police, Babu Ram, claimed, “We had sent force within 15 minutes of getting information. Later, we also arrested 63 persons for murder, rioting and other charges. We had even earlier received a note from the Italian Embassy about trouble at Graziano.”

The roots of the unrest can be traced to three months ago, when the company declared a partial lockout. Some 200 employees were affected. Company sources said 15 staffers were given termination letters while the others were to be taken back.

According to a company employee, “Some workers had been locked out selectively. They had arrived today to negotiate the re-employment terms. But, they were not willing to accept some conditions. And, sat on a dharna outside the main gate. There is a court injunction against these workers coming within 300 meters of the unit. But the police did not arrive when about 200 of them were at the gates, even as a precautionary measure.”

Union Labour Minister Oscar Fernandes is supporting workers in their act

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NO-FLAMING request :slight_smile:

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WTF :open_mouth: I had read about it but someone actually supporting the workers is outrageous.

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In another unrelated development, two security guards at the TATA plant in Singur were bashed up last night

Seems like TATA motors will certainly move out of WB now:

Die is cast: Tata rolls equipment out of Singur-India-The Times of India

What a pity that a state that was one of the most industrialized states in the country a few decades ago is in a sad spot like it is in now

And then I read this rant and wasn’t sure whether I am more amused at the sheer stupidity of the columnist who wrote this or sad at the abysmal levels journalism in this country has sunk to

Nano or no Nano: Bengal leading carmaker

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hether or not the Nano rolls out from Singur – the four-member land committee is supposed to finish its investigations on Friday – no one can snatch away West Bengal’s laurels in pioneering car manufacture in Asia.

Some might attribute the Ambassador’s easy birth to politics in the 1940s meaning more than vote-mongering.

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Others would argue that today’s agreements and announcements – by and between the CPI-M, Trinamool Congress and even Tata Motors [Get Quote] – obfuscate rather than enlighten. Whatever the reason, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee should shout from the housetops that Tata’s dinky one-lakh job is chickenfeed for a state that gave India its sturdy warhorse of our potholed roads.[/B]

B M Birla started Hindustan Motors [Get Quote] in 1942 in Port Okha but moved in 1948 to a 743-acre facility, said to be the biggest in South Asia, at Uttarpara, 30 km from Calcutta, where multi-utility vehicles (Trekker, Porter, Pushpak) were also produced.

I remember as a small boy the proud thrill when the Hindustan 10 hit the road. An older politically-minded cousin claimed the name reflected British insistence on restricting Indian car production to an annual 10.

As a young journalist, I was allotted a Landmaster. Though the Amby might be reeling under pressure of competition from sleek new brands, the Hindustan Motors factory, 60 years old this year, still turns out several thousand cars every month.

Its remarkable freedom from labour trouble prompted whispers of the Birlas handsomely funding Communist politicians.

Congress strategists must be laughing up their sleeves at frustrated Ratan Tata’s threat to withdraw from West Bengal. With elections round the corner, it is in their interest to incite Mamata Banerjee to drive nails into what they hope will be the Left Front government’s coffin.

For Manmohan Singh, it would be sweet revenge for four years of bonded slavery, especially since many in West Bengal blame Prakash Karat rather than the chief minister for the Nandigram bloodshed that preceded the furore over Singur.

There is some reason for Tata to feel ‘unwanted’ in West Bengal because, as this column pointed out earlier, the project has been so thoroughly mishandled that there is a strong public perception of haste without planning.

Our Mamata could not have gone on the rampage if Tatas had bought their own land through the market mechanism. Invoking a century-old acquisition law reinforced charges of colonial arbitrariness.

The government is accused of hypocrisy mainly because of Bhatacharjee’s fanciful promises about acquiring only one-crop land. It tied itself up in knots by denying forcible acquisition, then confessed that not 400 acres, as Banerjee claims, but 167 acres (the figure has since been revised many times) had indeed been so acquired.

Application of the Centre’s rehabilitation package would have blunted the edge of criticism somewhat. So would greater publicity for Tata’s promise to generate 10,000 jobs as well as train dispossessed peasants with no idea of manufacturing. It’s a mystery, too, why the government will not disclose details of its agreement with Tatas.

Secrecy fuels rumours about hidden construction and other deals for the Tatas that will handsomely benefit the CPI(M) as well as individual Marxist notables. It also encourages rampant land speculation.

Reason plays little part in the dialogue. Indeed, despite Gopalkrishna Gandhi’s heroic efforts, there is more demagoguery than dialogue.

Every player grinds a private axe. The Centre seeks to discredit the Left Front, Banerjee to mobilise voters, and Bhattacharjee to retain the loyalty of the next generation of Bengalis. But as the recent CITU bandh demonstrated, the populist forces the CPI-M- has stoked for three decades can explode in its face and destroy its dream of the future.

Our Amby is the sole survivor of Britain’s glory when BMC was the world’s fourth largest car manufacturer.

When Shanti Swarup Dhavan, high commissioner to Britain in the late 1960s, patriotically demanded an Ambassador, he was told that Londoners would think poverty-stricken India had resurrected a 1957 Morris Oxford Series III for its envoy.

But Bengalis can take time off from fighting the East India Company to gloat over an export version of the Amby being the favourite cab in London’s trendy Notting Hill.

As the controversy rages, I wonder whether the Amby’s success or rivalry between two great industrial houses influenced Tata’s choice of location. It seems too much of a coincidence that Singur and Hind Motor should be in the same district.

It only remains for Bhattacharjee to persuade Rahul Bajaj to make the Bajaj Lite also in Hooghly. That would be a hat trick for decrepit-but-ambitious Bengal.

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This is what I call Mob Mentality… When in a group of people think they can do anything, even taking law in their own hands without being held responsible… This is very common in India… we have seen this time and again… :frowning:

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That labour minister need a GPL..

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Shameful that we have such a Minister who condones murder. Mera bharat mahaan.