Word: charan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forming a coalition government seem slim; his own base of support, a branch of the divided Congress Party, holds only 77 seats in the 542-member Lok Sabha (lower house). Since no party wants a mid-term general election, the best bet at week's end was that Charan Singh, 76, the powerful leader of the new breakaway Janata (secular) Party, would be the next in line to form a government if Chavan did not succeed. If all else fails, the country could be forced to accept a weak and interim nonpartisan "national government...
Hovering behind the scenes in the intraparty quarrel was the formidable figure of Home Minister Charan Singh, 75, whose ambition to succeed Desai as Prime Minister is surpassed only by his abiding hatred for Indira Gandhi. Though temporarily incapacitated by a heart attack, Singh warned that Desai's action against Narain had "sounded the death knell of the Janata Party." At the same time, he launched his own indirect offensive against Desai by calling for Mrs. Gandhi's immediate arrest. Scorning Desai's view that she had been punished enough by her defeat at the polls last...
...younger son Sanjay faces a number of court cases arising from influence peddling in his freewheeling business activities. Some of her closest Cabinet-level associates have been arrested in scandals involving misappropriation of Congress Party funds. Last week, without mentioning any names, Home Minister Charan Singh said that "maybe" persons even higher would be arrested-and that left few short of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi herself. A few days later, her successor, Morarji Desai, was asked whether Mrs. Gandhi would be allowed a passport to travel abroad. "It is not easy to give a passport when investigations are going...