FAMINE IN INDIA
Tour By Mrs Gandhi (N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) NEW DELHI, November 6. About one million people, mostly hungry unemployed farmers, lined the route yesterday as the Indian Prime Minister, Mrs Indira Gandhi, toured areas of famine-stric-ken Bihar State.
She drove through 80 miles of dried, cracked fields in the three worst affected districts of Monghyr, Gaya and Patna, halting at a number of villages.
She assured the people that the distress caused by an unprecedented drought would be fought on a war footing and appealed to them to forget their political differences and work together to save lives.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31211, 8 November 1966, Page 20
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