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Ruler of the World. But discounting Indira as a real political contender, the choice of most party members at present is former Home Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri, 59, an honest if colorless politician who has been one of Nehru's most loyal lieutenants and who, like his leader, comes from Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state and the traditional breeding ground of Congress Party leaders. If Shastri is disqualified -he had a heart attack in 1959-a leading contender for the prime-ministership would probably be S. K. Patil, 63, a right-winger who runs Bombay with...
...party. The departing ministers were the strongest men on Nehru's team, although some were in political trouble. Among them were two strong pro-Westerners, Food Minister Patil and Finance Minister Morarji Desai, widely criticized for food shortages and high prices, as well as Home Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri, Nehru's likeliest successor...
Ayub not to trust any agreement signed by Nehru, because he "knows how to get out of commitments far more binding and rigid." Who was the opposition chieftain? None other than Ayub's own younger brother, Sardar Bahadur Khan...
Indications are that when Nehru steps down, his Congress Party will nominate a straw man who resembles him as closely as possible. Likeliest candidate is Lai Bahadur Shastri, 58, Nehru's bland Home Minister, who, while probably equal to the job, lacks the personal dynamism to .#11 it permanently. Conservatives favor Finance Minister Morarji Desai, a dogged free-enterpriser in a statist Cabinet and a stern ascetic who once gave up conjugal relations with his wife for 20 years. But Desai's austerity programs have not made him popular. Socialist Leader Jayaprakash Narayan is, next to Nehru...
...system that is more genuinely democratic than any thing envisaged by Ayub. The great majority of all elected candidates are former members of banned parties. At least 100 belonged to the old Moslem League, whose leader in West Pakistan is none other than Ayub's elder brother. Sardar Bahadur Khan. Moslem Leaguer Bahadur is outspokenly critical of his brother's contention that political parties, when restored, should be confined to "like-minded people" within the National Assembly, where his Moslem Leaguers will probably have a two-thirds majority...