Why did commonfolk choose to join a students’ protest? And that too in such large numbers?

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The year 1973, by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s own admission, was ‘a very difficult year’. Crop failure, serious fall in food production, inflation at 16.79% (it is around 4.6% this year), and loans from Japan, Canada, Britain and the World Bank, and a slowdown of industrial growth. In a nutshell, everything was costly, nothing was working and nothing was available. And to top it all, there were incessant charges of corruption against the sitting Chief Minister.

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