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...economics, the emphasis was on pragmatists, who would do what was good for India rather than follow the wasteful shibboleths of Indian-style socialism. The new Finance Minister, Morarji Desai, 71, who is also Deputy Prime Minister, will encourage foreign businessmen to invest in India. Plan ning Minister Asoka Mehta, 55, intends to cut back on bureaucratic state control of business, and took on the added portfolio of chemicals and petroleum in order to give new impetus to the drive to build more artificial-fertilizer plants in India. Commerce Minister Dinesh Singh, 41, intends to push Indian sales to Western...
...month's general elections in which India's ruling Congress Party suffered startling setbacks, the race has been on for the Prime Minister's job. The contestants: Indira Gandhi, who has held the position since the death of Lai Bahadur Shastri 14 months ago, and Morarji Desai, 71, the flinty former Finance Minister who was also Indira's sole rival in the earlier selection. Last week, bowing to pressures for party unity, Desai withdrew from the race, thus virtually assuring Indira's election this week by the Congress Party to a full five-year term...
...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, Mrs. Gandhi's rival for the Prime Ministership and an eyesore of the "Syndicate" that so long controlled the Congress, has also won with a huge plurality...
...powerful state chiefs, rallied to Indira-though hardly for the best of reasons. They prefer a relatively weak Prime Minister, who will let them run their own affairs with a minimum of direction from New Delhi, to someone like Indira's main rival, former Finance Minister Morarji Desai, 71, who undoubtedly would like to curb their independence. To give Desai less time to collect supporters, the party's parliamentary board moved the selection of Prime Minister forward by three weeks, to March 12. Indira was also helped by a feeling that the party should avoid any further upheavals...
Beaten by Indira in last year's 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...