| Shourie: settling the intellectual arguments over | ||||||
The woman wags a hectoring finger at the minister. “If a child is unwell,” she says, “its mother does not give it an injection of poison.” She and a group of trade union colleagues are accusing the minister of doing just that by privatizing the aluminium plant in Chattisgarh state. For 40 minutes they sit in his office and plead with Arun Shourie, minister in charge of privatization, administrative reform and a panjandrum range of critical issues concerning modernization of India’s economy, to roll back the privatization of Bharat Aluminium (Balco).
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