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Water cannon used to disperse CPI (M) activists

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The widespread anger over the police assault on protesting Honda company workers in neighbouring Gurgaon spilled over on the streets of the Capital on Tuesday as a large number of Communist Party of India (Marxist) activists held a vociferous demonstration at Haryana Bhavan here to express their sentiments on the issue. And as the agitators tried to break the security barricade, the police used water cannon to disperse them.

The Delhi state committee CPI (M) secretary, P.M.S. Grewal, claimed that four persons were injured.

The protest march was led by CPI (M) State secretariat member S.B. Bharadwaj and addressed by the party's central committee members Subhasini Ali, Suneet Chopra and Mr. Grewal.

They criticised the police "repression" and termed it "barbarous and unprecedented."

The party leaders charged that such a big incident of repression could not have taken place without the complicity of the Congress State Government and administration which, they alleged, acted as agents of the company to crush the legitimate trade union and democratic rights of the workers.

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