The strikers wanted that the former Agriculture Minister should be made responsible for decline in country’s cotton output. .
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The striking workers also raised a demand for subsidization of the
cotton prices through exemption from sales tax, banning raw cotton
exports, tax imposition on commodity exports, domestic industry
assistance, provision of gas to industries at subsidised rates and
nullification of customs duty on imported textiles till the crisis
situation ends”
Date:4/27/2011
Source:Reuters