Word: chavan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chief supporter, Home Minister Y. B. Chavan, put the entire blame on the Syndicate for splitting the party, and Food Minister Jagjivan Ram exhorted Indira's supporters to keep up their attendance at the Parliament. Though the party split leaves Indira some 40 seats short of a majority in the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament), she intends to try to remain in power. For the time being, at least, she seems assured of sufficient support. She commands the backing of the 25 members of the Dravidian Advancement Party, a regional grouping that seeks south Indian independence. She also...
...India Editor Sham Lai, in a signed editorial-page column, said that "a poor country of India's size cannot cope with its problems unless it learns to place the national interest above every parochial interest." Government officials, however, seemed intent on ducking decisions. Home Minister Y. B. Chavan confined himself to saying that he considered the Bombay uproar "most unfortunate." Prime Minister Indira Gandhi made no statement...
...abolishing their privileges and privy purses, which cost the government $6.5 million a year. All that was needed was an amendment to the constitution, which seemed certain to carry in Parliament. "There is no doubt that these privileges and privy purses are an anachronism," said Home Minister Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan. "Do we want this country to remain set in this immobility of 1948 or go ahead...
...disenchantment is really with the party itself or with the elements currently in control of it. For, while Congressmen identified as machine politicians and dispensers of patronage have been mostly trounced, their colleagues who are reputed to be honest and efficient have had no difficulty in getting elected. Mr. Chavan, erstwhile Defence Minister and of late Home Minister in Mrs. Gandhi's cabinet, has polled the highest number of votes polled by anyone in any one of the Parliamentary constituencies in this year's election. Mrs. Gandhi herself has been elected with a margin of 91,000 votes. Morarji Desai...
...race for Prime Minister, a badly miffed Desai remained aloof from her administration. He now stands as an alternative to her policies, since he would undoubtedly crack down on violence, actively encourage foreign investment, and cut back on government controls of business. Other possibilities for Prime Minister: Y. B. Chavan, 53, the able Home Minister, and D. P. Mishra, 65, chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, who led the party to a big victory in his state...