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Several thousand port workers staged demonstrations before their office premises at Haldia and Calcutta in protest against the move by the Govt. of India to hand-over several important ports in country to private ownership. The demonstrations were organised at the call of five all India bodies of port workers. Hemlal Chatterjee, General Secretary, Calcutta Port and Shore Mazdur Union and Himangshu Das, another leader of the Union addressed the demonstrators at Calcutta and Haldia respectively. Besides them the rallies were also addressed by the leaders of the several trade unions.

It is learnt that the Centre has already decided to privatise Haldia port along with two ports each at Tamilnadu and Maharashtra. An attempt was made to introduce a Bill to that extent at the Rajya Sabha which was thwarted by left forces within the House. A fresh move is feared to be on to make the conspiracy successful.