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Indira Gandhi had promised that she would follow the same policies as her predecessor, and last week, as she was sworn in as India's new Prime Minister, she seemed firmly on Lal Bahadur Shastri's path. Her Cabinet retained all of Shastri's key ministers, and she vowed in her inaugural broadcast that her "first duty" would be the same as Shastri's: to find more food for India's 480 million people, who face famine in the months ahead...
...Indira Gandhi and 169 for her only rival, Morarji Desai. Indira walked quickly to the podium, spoke briefly. "As I stand before you," she said in Hindi, "my thoughts go back to the great leaders: Mahatma Gandhi, at whose feet I grew up, Panditji, my father, and Lal Bahadur Shastri. These leaders have shown the way, and I want to go along the same path...
...political speeches." She taught her dolls to march in Mahatma Gandhi's protest demonstrations. Then other dolls would race up and lead the demonstrators off to jail. One of the callers who sometimes helped the lonely little girl stage the doll demonstrations was a frail Congress Party worker, Lal Bahadur Shastri...
After her father's death, she sought something" to keep her mind off events, decided to study anthropology. But she was under pressure to do something quite different. Lal Bahadur Shastri, the incoming Prime Minister, wanted her to become his Foreign Minister. She protested that she wanted to remain out of the limelight. But Shastri insisted. After ten days she gave in on one condition: that she get a less important post...
This week Indira will first travel to Allahabad, where the ashes of Lal Bahadur Shastri will be strewn on the mingling waters of the Ganges...