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...Wept. The Lion felt Nehru's anger and knew that his disciple and Deputy Premier, Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed, was plotting to take power. "One day," he said, "I called a confidential meeting of the party and said that if they wanted a new leader in whom they could have unqualified trust I would be the first to welcome him. Bakshi said right away, 'Who is the man who wants to take over from you, Sheik Sahib?' and I said: 'You, Bakshi.' And Bakshi wept...
Soothing Chat. Nehru's first task was to deal with an embarrassing split in the puppet Kashmiri government headed by ironfisted Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed. Seventeen of Kashmir's leading Communist-line politicians last week resigned from Bakshi's National Conference party, making charges of governmental corruption and repression in Indian Kashmir. If they continued to howl, their charges might carry all the way to the U.N., even provoke questions as to why Bakshi had knowingly tolerated such proCommunists in his government for so long. Determined to avoid this if possible, Nehru chatted soothingly with the rebels, quietly...
...evidence of the lengths to which India is prepared to go to keep Kashmir, Indian Puppet Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed and his followers last week succeeded in winning a majority of seats in the Kashmir legislature three weeks before a single vote could be cast. (The new legislators, explained the pro-Indian state election committee, had either been unopposed or opposed only by citizens whose nomination papers unfortunately proved invalid...
There was bound to be trouble, and the Lion's captors knew it. First, they moved Abdullah close to the Indian border. Then Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed, the new pro-Indian Premier, told Kashmiris that independence would turn the state into another Korea. In New Delhi, Nehru's officials lamely claimed that India was told of the arrests only "after they had taken place." (Prince Karan Singh and Bakshi were in India last month for talks with Nehru.) In Kashmir itself, a crowd of the Lion's followers marched on the Prime Minister's residence, cursed...