5. Read the source given and answer the questions that follow:
Newspapers provide an account of the movements in different parts of the country. Here is the
report of the police strike in 1946. More than 2000 policemen in Delhi refused to take their food
on Thursday morning as a protest against their low salaried and the bad quality of food supplied to
them from the police Lines kitchen.
As the news spread to the other police stations, the men there also refused to take food. One of the
strikes said: “The food supplied to us from the police line kitchen is not fit for human
consumption even cattle could not eat the chapattis and Dal which we have to eat"
1) Do you remember the source of this literary evidence?
Answers
Answer:
Questions:
(i) Why did the policemen in Delhi refuse to take their food on Thursday morning?
(ii) How did the men in other police stations react when they came to know about the protest?
(iii) What was the comment of one of the strikers on the food supplied to them?
(i) They did so as a protest against their low salaries and the bad quality of food supplied to them from the Police Lines kitchen.
(ii) They also refused to take food.
(iii) One of the strikers said that the food supplied to them was not fit for human consumption. Even cattle would not eat the chappattis and dal which they had to eat.
Answer:
Questions:
(i) Why did the policemen in Delhi refuse to take their food on Thursday morning?
(ii) How did the men in other police stations react when they came to know about the protest?
(iii) What was the comment of one of the strikers on the food supplied to them?
(i) They did so as a protest against their low salaries and the bad quality of food supplied to them from the Police Lines kitchen.
(ii) They also refused to take food.
(iii) One of the strikers said that the food supplied to them was not fit for human consumption. Even cattle would not eat the chappattis and dal which they had to eat.
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