Talk:Dutta Samant

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An entry from Dutta Samant appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 24 July 2006.

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who is most famous for leading an estimated 200-300,000 textile mill workers in the city of Mumbai (then Bombay) on a year-long strike in 1982

Does he deserve to be called famous (as opposed to infamous or its equivalent) ? Tintin (talk) 13:46, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't think the positive or negative connotation should come in at all - Samant is "well-known," whether people agreed/disagreed with him. This Fire Burns Always 16:18, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Datta Samant and Press Advertisement of Mills Owner Association

Mills Owner Association has given many advertisements that wokers are paid more than Government employee and Teachers. Seeing that Government workers are poorly paid Government forced to Association to stop giving these type of Advertisements in News Papers.vkvora 17:22, 19 January 2007 (UTC)