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Prime Decision. This week the powerful working committee of the Congress Party will convene in New Delhi to talk about who should be Prime Minister when a new government is formed in April. If the party decides to bypass Indira, the choice is most likely to fall on Morarji Desai, 71, the ascetic longtime Finance Minister in Nehru's Cabinet, who won re-election by the biggest (80%) margin of any leading Congress Party politician...
Finance Minister Morarji Desai, 70, an unbending rightist. Also in the wings: Kumaraswami Kamaraj Nadar, 63, the kingmaker of the party, who some say is so unhappy with Indira that he is considering taking the job himself...
...woman, is awed by women who can. She just returned from India, where she followed Prim Minister Indira Gandhi for four weeks. "No one thinks it's remarkable that she is Prime Minister," Mrs. Friedan says, pulling at an earing. "No is raising a furor. Finance Minister Desai never attacked her because of her sex, primarily because anti-women tactics wouldn't have worked. Their criticism of her are of her political abilities." Mrs. Friedan paused and smiled. "It was so grand watching her move about with her ministers. She is Prime Minister...
...Shastri's death, he had flown from his home in the south to Delhi, muttering: "What to do? Unity! Indira?" In Delhi he kept the thought to himself and did his best to find a candidate with the widest support. Neither the syndicate nor Kamaraj wanted the conservative Desai, for he was too strong?and abrasive?a personality for any group of party leaders. Desai was not deterred; he ran his own campaign, appealing to the party members to beat the bosses. Meanwhile, Kamaraj was holding court in a bungalow in Delhi where, one by one, he received the chief...
...Kamaraj listened to their views, he began to realize that his first hunch about Indira and, unity was right: she had by far the fewest enemies and by far the widest reputation. With ten of the 15 chief ministers lined up behind Indira, Kamaraj went to Desai, asking him for the sake of party unity to call off his fight. But Desai adamantly refused, vowing to force an election within the party. Now Kamaraj had to bring his candidate out in the open. He sent a message to Indira: "We are old, and the next time you wish...