Word: desai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Congress Party has been racked with internal dissension ever since Nehru last fall asked a number of top Cabinet officers-including Food Minister S. K. Patil, Home Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri, and Finance Minister Morarji Desai -to resign, ostensibly to reorganize the party and revitalize its strength among the masses. But it is generally felt that Nehru actually intended the move as a ruse to shake out of the Cabinet all potential contenders for his post. Wise to the scheme, the ousted ministers set about building up personal followings for a succession fight...
...Morarji Desai, 67, a stern ascetic who was Nehru's Finance Minister and was once a favorite to succeed him, has lost much of his popularity in the past year, largely as a result of his Draconian measures to raise taxes for the defense effort, but could still be the powerful right wing's choice...
...resignation of six Cabinet ministers, who announced that they would concentrate on rejuvenating the 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...
...combination of economic necessity, international tension, and gradual softening of popular opinion has recently lead to positive steps toward cooperation between the two countries. As Mr. Bhalchandra Krishna Desai, secretary to the Indian political leader Ramakrishna Bhaha said, "If both don't hang together, we will each hang separately...
...Desai went on to stress the geographical unity of the countries and the necessity for combining military forces. Together the armies could successfully combat the Red Chinese forces in Southeast Asia, while now each country spends too much of its military budget guarding Pakistan-Indian borders...