Word: subramaniam
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...more today than you paid yesterday." Later, they pitched a tent on the sidewalk and started selling their own coffee at 25 paise a cup. Soon a Price Resistance Committee was organized to spread the boycott to other restaurants and shops. Among the joiners were Chidambaram Subramaniam, India's Food Minister, and Asoka Mehta, deputy chairman of India's Planning Commission...
...discontent of such people has led the government to predict widespread food riots soon. Food Minister C. Subramaniam blames hoarding by wholesalers for much of the trouble, declares that some merchants have actually bribed railwaymen to slow down food trains so that temporary scarcities will force prices up in some critical areas, permitting them to make a killing. Recently he warned wholesalers at Hyderabad: "If you do not discipline yourselves, and continue exploiting the people, the government will nationalize the entire trade...